in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

For that reason, I endure everything for the sake of those who have been chosen so that they, too, may receive the salvation that is in the Messiah Jesus, along with eternal glory.

who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God has been standing, having this seal, "The Lord knew those who are His:" and "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."

if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

But thou hast been thoroughly acquainted with my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance,

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness].

that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.

But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

For I am already poured out, and the time of my deliverance has been fixed.

I have fought the good battle; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith [i.e., I have been true to my commitment].

for he has been bitterly hostile to anything I have said.

serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago ??3 he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: ??4 to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;

My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint Officers of the Church in the various towns, as I myself directed you.

They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

It has been said by one of themselves, by a prophet of their own, that ??"Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

Everything is clean to those who are clean, but nothing is clean to those who are corrupt and unbelieving. Indeed, their very way of thinking and their consciences have been corrupted.

For the loving-kindness of God has been revealed, bringing Salvation for all;

not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

that, having been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

having known that he hath been subverted who is such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.

For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

who, for some time, has been unprofitable to you, but now is very profitable to you and to me:

I would have been glad to keep him with me, so that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;

but I did not want to do anything without first getting your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

for perhaps for this reason he has been separated from thee for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for ever;

having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.

Are not all these ministering spirits, having been sent forth unto ministration for the sake of those who are about to inherit salvation?

For this cause, it behoveth us, with unwonted firmness, to be holding fast unto the things that have been heard, lest, at any time, we drift away.

For if the word having been spoken by angels was stedfast, and every disobedience and transgression received a just recompense of reward;

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

But one has [solemnly] testified somewhere [in Scripture], saying,

“What is man, that You are mindful of him,
Or the son of man, that You graciously care for him?

You placed everything under his feet [Note: This is true of both mankind (Gen. 1:26-28) and of Jesus (Eph. 1:22-23)]. For in subjecting everything to him, God did not leave anything that is not subject to him. But at the present time we do not see what all has been subjected to him.

But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every man .

and might set at liberty all those who through fear of death had been subject to lifelong slavery.

For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.

Therefore, holy brothers [and sisters], who have been called [by God] to share in heaven, think about Jesus, the Apostle and Head Priest, whom we have confessed [as Savior].

has been to the God who appointed him, just as Moses was, in all the house of God.

For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.

for we have been made partakers of Christ, if indeed we may hold fast the beginning of confidence firm unto the end.

As it has been said [Psa. 95:7], "Today, if you hear His [i.e., God's] voice, do not have a stubborn heart like you did when you provoked [God]."

And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient?

Then let us fear, lest at some time, the promise to enter into his rest having been left, some of you may appear to have come short.

For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them; but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they were not one in faith with those who gave heed to it.

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

even though his actions had been finished since the creation of the world. Somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: "On the seventh day God rested from all his actions,"

he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.

For, if, unto them, Joshua had given rest, it had not in that case, concerning another day, been speaking, after, these things.

For He who has been admitted to His rest, has rested from His works as God did from His.

And no creature is hidden in his presence: but all things are naked and have been laid open to the eyes of him to whom the word is unto us.

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Nor does any one take that high office upon himself, till he has been called to do so by God, as Aaron was.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;

having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,

Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing.

For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food.

But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

of teaching about washings (ritual purifications), the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. [These are all important matters in which you should have been proficient long ago.]

For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

And producing thorns and briers is rejected, after having been tried, and near cursing; whose end for destruction.

And we have been persuaded of you, dearly beloved, of better things, and connected with salvation, if we also thus speak.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

whither Jesus the forerunner has entered in our behalf, having been made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

Now think how great this priest-king must have been to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth part of the best of the spoil.

and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.

for when Melchizedek met him, he was still in Abraham's body [i.e., Levi had not yet been born as a descendant of Abraham].

Now if perfection [a perfect fellowship between God and the worshiper] had been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people were given the Law) what further need was there for another and different kind of priest to arise, one in the manner of Melchizedek, rather than one appointed to the order of Aaron?

For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has ever been attached to the service of the altar.

who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

For it has been testified:

You are a priest forever
in the order of Melchizedek.

Indeed, because it was weak and ineffective, the former commandment has been annulled,

(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever);

insomuch that Jesus has also been made the mediator of a better covenant.

And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:

For such a high priest was indeed appropriate unto us, holy, free from sin, undefiled, having been separated from the sinners, and being higher than the heavens;

for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that is after the law appointeth the Son -- to the age having been perfected.

Now [this is] the main point in what has been said: we have a high priest such as this, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;

the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;

But Christ appeared as a High Priest of the blessings that are soon to come by means of the greater and more perfect Tent of worship, a tent which has not been built with hands--that is to say does not belong to this material creation--

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.

Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.