For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: he was revealed in the flesh, was vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you through prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands on you.

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and the grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains;

but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me

But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion's mouth.

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you might straighten out what was left unfinished, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you,

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.

Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,

For if the message spoken by angels was valid, and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.

Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; and they have not known my ways.'

And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

For we also have had the good news preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

And no one takes the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

So also Christ did not exalt himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my son, today I have begotten you";

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his godly fear.

Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;

See how great he was! Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the spoils.

for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.

Now if perfection could have been through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not one designated according to the order of Aaron?

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

And it was not without an oath.

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."

For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.

Behind the second curtain was a tabernacle called the Holy of Holies,

The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the holy place had not yet been disclosed as long as the outer tabernacle was still standing.

This is why even the first covenant was not ratified without blood.

It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Nor was it that he should offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood not his own.

How much severer punishment do you think a man will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as an unclean thing the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

By faith Abel offered God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his gifts. And through faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. For before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

for he was looking forward to the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, because she considered him faithful who had promised.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son,

of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your descendants be called."

He considered that God was able to raise men even from the dead; from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, when he was at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites, and gave orders concerning his bones.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, whose weakness was turned to strength, who became mighty in war, and put foreign armies to flight.

of whom the world was not worthy wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised,

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."

The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, "I am trembling with fear."

for he looks at himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

You see that faith was working with his works, and faith was completed by works,

and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness", and he was called the friend of God.

In the same way was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaventhings into which angels long to look.

He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word which was preached to you.

"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth;"

when he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he uttered no threats, but he trusted himself to him who judges justly.

For this reason the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they might live in the spirit according to the will of God.

For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

for no prophecy was ever made by the act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men

but he was rebuked for his own transgression by a donkeya beast without speechwho spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and by means of water,

through which the world at that time was destroyed, being deluged with water.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have touched, concerning the Word of life,

the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and testify to it, and proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us

He who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it was coming, and now it is in the world already.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

We know that anyone born of God does not sin; but he who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

Beloved, although I was very eager to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of his holy ones,

John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands,

his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters;

he held in his right hand seven stars, out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.

and the Living One; I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore! And I have the keys of death and Hades.

I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. And you hold fast to my name, and did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

At once I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, with one sitting on the throne.