for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.

but being in Rome, very diligently he sought me, and found;

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

These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

no more as a servant, but above a servant -- a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!

for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

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.

neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

but in those sacrifices is a remembrance of sins every year,

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain is, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

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,

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.

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

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

But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, 'Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

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.

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

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.

but according as He who did call you is holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

for what renown is it, if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure it? but if, doing good and suffering for it, ye do endure, this is gracious with God,

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy are ye! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

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;

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

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty --

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

because all that is in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

This one is he who did come through water and blood -- Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,

We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

Many things having to write to you, I did not intend through paper and ink, but I hope to come unto you, and speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full;

I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,

messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke thee!'

'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

but this thou hast, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitans, that I also hate.

I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.

'But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;

'But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

but that which ye have -- hold ye, till I may come;

lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make them that they may come and bow before thy feet, and may know that I loved thee.

and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment is as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;