saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'

nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

then he said, 'Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.

and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'

which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh --

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him.

by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,

for they were not bearing that which is commanded, 'And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'

and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

and this -- 'Yet once' -- doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

so that we do boldly say, 'The Lord is to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

Wherefore, also Jesus -- that he might sanctify through his own blood the people -- without the gate did suffer;

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.

Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,

and more abundantly do I call upon you to do this, that more quickly I may be restored to you.

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.

Know ye that the brother Timotheus is released, with whom, if he may come more shortly, I will see you.

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

thou -- thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, 'Friend of God' he was called.

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other?

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,

to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

and the saying of the Lord doth remain -- to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

if so be ye did taste that the Lord is gracious,

to you, then, who are believing is the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

if any one doth speak -- 'as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- 'as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;

so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,