So I said, 'Here I come ??in the roll of the book this is written of me ??I come to do thy will, O God.'

he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body.

This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds,

And their sins and breaches of the law I will remember no more.

nothing but an awful outlook of doom, of that burning Wrath which will consume the foes of God.

How much heavier, do you suppose, will be the punishment assigned to him who has spurned the Son of God, who has profaned the covenant-blood with which he was sanctified, who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

We know who said, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital: and again, The Lord will pass sentence on his people.

Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised.

For in a little, a very little now, The Coming One will arrive without delay.

Aim at peace with all ??and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;

Then his voice shook the earth, but now the assurance is, once again I will make heaven as well as earth to quake.

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you.

So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

You must understand that [our] brother Timotheus is now free. If he comes soon, he and I will see you together.

Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.

that man need not imagine he will get anything from God,

but let one who is rich exult in being lowered; for the rich will pass away like the flower of the grass ??11 up comes the sun with the scorching wind and withers the grass, its flower drops off, and the splendour of it is ruined: so shall the rich fade away amid their pursuits.

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

Whereas he who gazes into the faultless law of freedom and remains in that position, proving himself to be no forgetful listener but an active agent, he will be blessed in his activity.

for the judgment will be merciless to the man who has shown no mercy ??whereas the merciful life will triumph in the face of judgment.

Someone will object, 'And you claim to have faith!' Yes, and I claim to have deeds as well; you show me your faith without any deeds, and I will show you by my deeds what faith is!

But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead?

My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.

Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:

draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

humble yourselves before the Lord, and then he will raise you up.

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

your gold and silver lie rusted over, and their rust will be evidence against you, it will devour your flesh like fire. [Moved to the end of 5:1] You have been storing up treasure in the very last days;

the prayer of faith will restore the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; even the sins he has committed will be forgiven him.

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy

For thus it stands in the scripture: Here I lay a Stone in Sion, a choice, a precious cornerstone: he who believes in him will never be disappointed.

and to governors as deputed by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the encouragement of honest people ??15 for it is the will of God that by your honest lives you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish persons.

In the same way, you wives must be submissive to your husbands, so that even those who will not believe the Word may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives,

Yet who will wrong you if you have a passion for goodness?

For it is better to suffer for doing right (if that should be the will of God) than for doing wrong.

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,

but they will have to answer for that to Him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead

It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?

If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?

So let those who are suffering by the will of God trust their souls to him, their faithful Creator, as they continue to do right.

Now I make this appeal to your presbyters (for I am a presbyter myself, I was a witness of what Christ suffered and I am to share the glory that will be revealed),

Then you will receive the unfading crown of glory, when the chief Shepherd makes his appearance.

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

you will thus be richly furnished with the right of entry into the eternal realm of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

Yes, and I will see to it that even when I am gone, you will keep this constantly in mind.

Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,

and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

But those people! ??like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

They verify the truth of the proverb: "The dog turns back to what he has vomited, the sow when washed will wallow in the mire."

To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions,

The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear.

and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

Let that remain in you which you learned from the very beginning; if what you learned from the very beginning remains with you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son.

Now the confidence we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything in accordance with his will;

If anyone notices his brother committing a sin which is not deadly, he will ask and obtain life for him ??for anyone who does not commit a deadly sin. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not mean he is to pray for that.

for the sake of the Truth which remains within us and will be with us for ever:

grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

I say this, because a number of impostors have emerged in the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; that marks the real 'impostor' and 'antichrist.'

Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son.

I am hoping to see you soon, and we will have a talk. [15] Peace to you! The friends salute you: salute the friends one by one.

wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.

they told you beforehand, "At the end of things there will be mockers who go by their own impious passions."

Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

Now, remember the height from which you have fallen; repent and act as you did at first. If not, I will come to you [very soon] and remove your lamp stand, unless you repent.

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.

Repent; if not, I will very soon come to you and make war upon them with the sword of my mouth.

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'

Lo, I will lay her on a sickbed, and bring her paramours into sore distress, if they do not repent of her practices;

and her children I will exterminate. So shall all the churches know that I am the searcher of the inmost heart; I will requite each of you according to what you have done.

'And the conqueror, he who till the end lays to heart what I enjoin, I will give him authority over the nations ??27 aye, he will shepherd them with an iron flail, shattering them like a potter's jars ??as I myself have received authority from my Father;

also I will grant him to see the Morning-star.'

Now remember what you received and heard, hold to it and repent. If you will not wake up, I shall come like a thief; you will not know at what hour I come upon you.

'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'

Lo, I will make those who belong to that synagogue of Satan, who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but liars!) ??lo, I will have them come and do homage before your feet and learn that I did love you.

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

'As for the conqueror, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God (nevermore shall he leave it), and I will inscribe on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God), and my own new name.'

Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.

'The conqueror I will allow to sit beside me on my throne, as I myself have conquered and sat down beside my Father on his throne.'

After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this."

"Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."

So I looked, and there was a livid horse; its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. They were given power over the fourth part of the earth, to kill men with sword and famine and plague and by the wild beasts of the earth.

and they cried aloud, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long wilt thou refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on earth?"

Never again will they hunger, never again will they thirst, never shall the sun strike them, nor any scorching heat;"

for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

In those days men will seek death, but they will not find it: they will long to die, but death flies from them.

So I went to the angel, saying, "Give me the small scroll." "Take it," said he, "and swallow it; it will taste sweet as honey, but it will be bitter to digest."

but omit the court outside the temple, do not measure that, for it has been given over to the Gentiles; and the city will be under their heel for two and forty months.

But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth