So even the Christ was not raised to the high glory of the priesthood by himself, but on the contrary by Him who said to him. Thou art my Son; this day have I become thy Father;

Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing.

But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

that by means of two immutable things??is promise and his oath??n which it is impossible for God to break faith, we refugees may have strong encouragement to grasp the hope set before us.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

And they indeed have been made priests, many in number, because they have been prevented by death from continuing;

The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; whence it follows that this High Priest also must have some offering to make.

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

For I will have mercy upon their wrong-doings, And their sins I will remember no more."

For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleansing of the flesh,

And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshippers having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sin.

And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

But when these have been remitted, there is no more any offering for sin.

Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God;

For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins,

For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay.

And if they had cherished the memory of that land from which they went out, they would have found an opportunity to return;

Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;

and have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as sons? My son, do not despise the training of the Lord, Nor faint when he corrects you;

Now no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained under it.

Do not neglect to show hospitality; for by it some have even entertained angels unawares.

Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.

We Christians have an altar from which those have no right to eat who minister in the Tabernacle.

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.

Keep on praying for me. I am persuaded that I have a clear conscience, and I desire in every way to live nobly.

But I entreat you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

are you not drawing distinctions among yourselves, and have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to court?

If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

For he who said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not Kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, but if you do kill, you have transgressed the Law.

In just the same way faith, if it have not deeds, is by itself a lifeless thing.

Some one indeed may say, "You have faith, and I have deeds." "Then show me your faith," I answer, "apart from any deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds."

For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea-creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind,

But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

You continually crave and do not obtain; you are killing and coveting and cannot acquire; you are fighting and at war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Your gold and silver are rusted. and their rust will be for a testimony against you, and it will eat your flesh. For you have been storing up fire in these last days!

Look! the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been keeping back by fraud, are crying aloud! And the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth!

You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous man unresisting!

Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships.

Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

It was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were ministering the truths which have now been announced to you, by those who preached the gospel to you, through the help of the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven??ruths into which angels long to look.

Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

For you have been born anew, not of perishable, but of imperishable seed, by the living, lasting word of God.

since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light??10 you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called??o inherit a blessing.

See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

He is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; to Him angels and authorities and powers have been made subject.

For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

By Sylvanus, a faithful brother of yours, as I suppose, I have written you briefly, to comfort you, and to testify that this is the true grace of God. In this stand fast.

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

By these he has granted his promises to us, precious and splendid; so that through them you may become partners of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting with you.

They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.

They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

But the heavens and earth that now are, by the same word of God, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the Day of Judgment, and for the destruction of ungodly men.

It is of what has existed from the beginning, of what we have listened to, of what we have seen with our own eyes, of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads, it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing.

And the Life was made visible, and we have seen it and are bearing witness, and are bringing you word of that Eternal Life which was face to face with the Father and was made visible to us.

It is what we have seen and heard that we are announcing to you, in order that you also may have partnership with us; and our partnership is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.

If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth.

But is we are passing our life in the light, as he is in the light, we ever have partnership with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ is cleansing us from every sin.

If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we say, "We have not sinned," we are making him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments.

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, nay, and old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. That old commandment is the message to which you have listened.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour.

They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

Now you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.

If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father.

I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning, "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER."

We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God,

and every spirit which confesses him not, is not from God. And this is that spirit of Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming, and that now it is already in the world.

My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.

and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

In this is love made perfect with us, so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment, because we are living in this world as He lives.

And we have this command from God: HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.

I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.