looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.

for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.

If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;

and to the church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of the righteous made perfect,

See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven;

Remember your guides who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the end of their life follow the faith.

We have an altar of which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

And may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

perfect you in every good work to do his will, doing in you that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever; amen.

Know that brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you.

And if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given him.

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

All good giving, and every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.

and you look upon him who wears the splendid clothing, and say to him, Sit here in a good place, and say to the poor man, Stand there, or sit under my footstool,

Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

For he shall have judgment without mercy who shows not mercy; mercy rejoices over judgment.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.

There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?

who know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes away;

Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry, and the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

You have the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, my brothers, as an example of patience and long-suffering.

Behold, we account them blessed who are patient. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, that he is very merciful and compassionate.

let him know that he who converts a sinner from an error of [his] way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

whom not having seen you love, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious,

Concerning which salvation the prophets also who prophesied concerning the grace [bestowed] on us inquired diligently and sought,

to whom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us those things which have now been declared to you by those who preached to you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which the angels desire to look.

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, spend the time of your life with fear,

who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but made manifest in these last times for you,

who through him believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men but approved by God, elect, precious,

To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, who stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;

who committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth,

who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,

who himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands,

And who is he that will injure you if you are followers of what is good?

having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ.

who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water.

who is on the right hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and dead.

Let those therefore who suffer by the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing as a faithful creator.

The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed;

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;

whom resist, firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished by your brothers in the world.

And may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a little while, himself make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish you.

SIMEON Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when this voice was brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

and many shall follow their lewdness, on account of whom the way of truth shall be reviled,

and condemned Sodom and Gomorrah to be overthrown, reducing them to ashes, making them an example to those who should afterwards be wicked,

but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,

where the angels who are greater in strength and power do not bring against them a reproachful judgment;

having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,

Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and the Son.

I have written these things to you concerning those who deceive you.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.

If any one says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

And we have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.

Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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

If any one sees his brother commit a sin, not to death, he shall ask, and he will give him life, for those who sin not to death. There is a sin to death; I say not that you should pray for it.

We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin, but he that has been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

THE elder to the elect Curia and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only but also all who have known the truth,

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh; this is the deceiver, and the antichrist.

Every one who goes beyond, and continues not in the doctrine of Christ, is without God. He that continues in the doctrine has both the Son and the Father.

THE elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

who testified of your love before the church, whom you will do well to send forward worthily of God.

JUDAS, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the beloved in God the Father, and the called who are kept by Jesus Christ.

For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day;

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

who declared the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ which he saw.

Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him and those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of him. Yes, amen.

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write, These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks,

I know your works and your labor and your patience, and that you cannot bear the wicked, and you tried those who say they are apostles and are not, and found them false;

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who was dead and lived,

I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich, and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.

So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.

But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols.

But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira who have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden;

Be watchful, confirm the rest who are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God.

But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but lie, behold, I will make them come and worship at your feet, and they shall know that I have loved you.

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is to come on all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

And when the cherubs gave glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne who lives forever and ever,

And I saw a mighty angel proclaim with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seven seals?

for the great day of his wrath has come, and who can stand?

And I saw another angel ascend from the east, having the seal of the living God, and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to injure the earth and the sea,

and they cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation be to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.