that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,

For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, the one having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but being made like unto the Son of God, he abides a priest continually.

for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh unto God.

wherefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those coming unto God through him, ever living to intercede for them.

The minister of the holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which God pitched, and not man.

Because this is my covenant which I will establish with the house of Israel after these days, says the Lord; having given my laws in their mind, I will also write them on their heart; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be unto me a people.

But Christ being a high priest of good things to come, through a greater and a more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this world;

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered up himself without spot to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God established unto you.

For Christ did not come into the sanctuaries made with hands, the pattern of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be made manifest unto the face of God in our behalf:

For the law having the shadow of good things to come, not the real image of the things, annually with the same sacrifices which they offer continually, is by no means able to make perfect those coming to it:

then I said, Lo, I come in the volume of the Book it has been written of me to do thy will, O God.

and he, having offered up one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down on the right hand of God;

and having a great high priest over the house of God;

and let us recognize one another in the provocation of divine love and good works:

of how much more terrible punishment, do you think, the one having trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, common, and insulted the Spirit of grace; be counted worthy!

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

By faith we understand that the worlds were created by the word of God, and that which was seen was not made from things which are manifest.

By faith Abel offered up to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received the witness that he was righteous, God witnessing to his gifts: and through it he having died is still speaking.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found because God translated him. For before he was translated he had the witness of the Spirit, that he pleased God:

but without faith it is impossible to please him: for it behooves the one coming unto God to believe that he is, and he is a rewarder unto them who seek him out.

for he anticipated a city having foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

but now they seek a better country, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

considering that God is able to raise him from the dead; whence he also received him in a figure.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season;

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

looking unto Jesus the beginner and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was placed before him, endured the cross, looking with contempt at the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

Endure unto chastisement; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom the father does not chastise?

looking diligently lest any one may fail from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up may trouble you, and through it many may be defiled;

but you have come to mount Zion, and to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the city of the living God, and to myriads of angels,

to the whole company, and to the church of the first-born, who have been written in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of justified people who have been made perfect,

Therefore receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and fear:

for our God is a consuming fire.

Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God: the outgoing of whose deportment seeing, imitate their faith.

Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited.

Therefore indeed Jesus, in order that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Therefore let us offer to God a sacrifice of praise continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing to his name.

But do not forget benefaction and fellowship: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wishing in all things to deport ourselves in harmony with the beauty of holiness.

And the God of peace, the one having raised up from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the sheep, make you perfect, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

in every good thing to do his will, doing that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory unto the age of the ages. Amen.

James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.

But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all cheerfully and upbraids none; and it will be given unto him.

Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.

Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one:

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.

for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.

and you may look upon the one wearing the shining garment, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and may say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit down beneath my footstool:

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

Do they not blaspheme the good name which has been called upon you?

Do you believe that there is one God? you do well: the demons also believe and tremble.

and the scripture was fulfilled, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God.

With it we bless the Lord, even the Father; and with it we scold the people, who have been made after the image of God:

But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily persuaded, full of mercy and of good works, free from partiality and hypocrisy.

O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.

and he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Therefore draw nigh unto God; and resist the devil, and he will flee from you:

draw nigh unto God, and he draws nigh unto you. Purify your hands, ye sinners; and cleanse your hearts, ye double-minded.

Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having according to his great mercy begotten us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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

who through him are faithful toward God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are toward God.

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God, who lives and abides.

if you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Unto whom going forth, to a living stone, indeed rejected by men, but elect with God, precious,

and you, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, into a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, acceptable unto God through Jesus Christ.

who at one time were no people, but now you are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, lint just now having received mercy.

having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.

or to governors, as those having been sent out by him unto the condemnation of evil doers, and the praise of those doing good;

because thus it is the will of God, that doing good you should put to shame the ignorance of the ignorant people:

as free, and not as having the freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God.

Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.

Servants, be submissive to your masters with all reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

For this is grace, if, through the conscience of God, one bears sorrows and suffering unjustly.

For what glory is there, if, committing sin and being buffeted, you endure it? But if, doing good and suffering you endure it, this is grace with God.

but let their beauty be the hidden man of the heart, in the purity of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is perfection complete.

For in this way in olden times the holy wives, the ones having hope toward God, were indeed accustomed to beautify themselves, submissive to their own husbands:

as Sarah submitted to Abraham, calling him Lord: whose children you have become, doing good, and not fearing any calamity.

For let the one wishing to love life, and to see good days, cease his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile:

let him depart from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it:

Who is the one about to harm you, if you may be zealots of the good?

having a good conscience, in order that, in whatsoever you are calumniated, those traducing your good deportment in Christ may be ashamed.

For it is better, doing good, if the will of the Lord should will it, to suffer, rather than doing evil.

Because Christ indeed once died for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in spirit:

who at one time were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, the ark being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through the water.

Which antitype baptism does even now save you, not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the seeking after a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

who is on the right hand of God, having gone up into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being subordinated unto him.

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

For, unto this the gospel was also preached to the dead, in order that they may indeed be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

as each one received the gift of grace, ministering the same to one another, as the good stewards of the manifold grace of God:

if any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any one ministers, as from the strength which God supplies; in order that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ; to whom there is glory and power unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

If you suffer reproach in the name of Christ, happy are you, because the spirit of the glory and the spirit of God rest on you.

but if as a Christian, be not ashamed, but glorify God in this name.

Because it is time that judgment should begin from the house of God: and if it is first from us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

So let those indeed suffering according to the will of God submit their souls to the faithful Creator, in good work.