But they shall proceed no further: for their insanity will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing;

and they will indeed turn their hearing from the truth, and be turned unto fables.

This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith,

They profess to know God, but deny him by their works, being abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate unto every good work.

in order that they instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

That servants submit to their own masters, that they be obedient in all things; not speaking back;

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

to speak evil of no one, that they should be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

but reject foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife, and controversies about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

And let our people indeed learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, in order that they may not be unfruitful.

being so much greater than the angels, that he has inherited a name so much more excellent than they.

and thou shalt roll them up like a mantle, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail thee.

For both the one sanctifying and they who are sanctified are all of one: on account of which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Therefore I was provoked with this generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart: and they have not known my way,

as I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

for who were those, having heard, who were hardened? yea, were they not all those having come out of Egypt under Moses?

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?

And we see that they were not able to enter in on account of their unbelief.

For we truly have had the gospel preached unto us, as they did also: but the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith to those hearing.

For we who have believed, do enter into rest: as he has said, As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: the works truly having been from the foundations of the world.

And in this again he has said, They shall not enter into my rest.

And indeed many have been made priests, because they were prohibited by death from continuing:

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they abode not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord.

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.

And they shall no longer teach each one his neighbor, each one his brother, saying, Know ye the Lord: because all shall know me, from their small even unto the great.

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:

since in that case would they not have ceased being offered, because the worshipers having once been purified would have had no more conscience of sins?

Therefore indeed they were born of one, and those things of one having died, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sands which are by the sea, which are innumerable.

These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For those speaking such things declare that they are seeking after a country of their own.

If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an opportunity to return;

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.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and did not fear the commandment of the king.

By faith they pass through the Red sea as through dry land: the undertaking of which the Egyptians having entered upon were drowned.

women receive their dead from a resurrection: some were tortured, not accepting deliverance; in order that they might receive a better resurrection:

they were stoned, they were tempted, they were burnt, they died by the edge of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, troubled, persecuted,

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

For they indeed for a few days were accustomed to chastise us according to that which seemed right to them; but he made unto our profit, in order that we might partake his holiness.

for they could not endure that which was spoken, If a wild beast should touch the mountain, it shall be pierced through with a dart:

See that you do not reject the one speaking: for if they escape not having rejected the one delivering them the divine oracles on earth, how much more shall we not escape, who turn away from the one speaking from the heavens:

Obey your leaders, and be submissive: for they are watching for your souls, as they shall give an account that they may do this with joy and not with grief, for this is unprofitable to you.

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

But if we put bridles into the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us; and we manage their whole body;

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

Truly the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; if he may have committed sins, they shall be forgiven unto him.

to whom it was revealed, because they were ministering not these things for themselves, but for you, which are now proclaimed unto you by those who preach to you the gospel with the Holy Ghost having been sent from heaven; into which things the angels desire to look down.

who stumble over the word, disbelieving: unto which they indeed were appointed.

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.

Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word;

in which they are astonished you not running to the same excess of wrath, blaspheming;

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.

and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber.

and especially those going after the flesh in the lust of pollution, and despising lordship. Audacious darers, blaspheming, they do not tremble at glories;

But these, like irrational animals having been born naturally for capture and destruction, blaspheming those things in which they are ignorant; in their own corruption they will indeed corrupt themselves;

leaving the straight way, they have wandered off, following in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of iniquity; and had the conviction of his own conscience:

For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;

promising them liberty, they themselves being the slaves of corruption: for to whatsoever any one has been subordinated, to this he has become enslaved.

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.

For they willingly forget this, that the heavens were in the olden time, and the earth standing out of the water and through the water, by the word of God;

as also in all his epistles, speaking in the same concerning these things; in which there are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unestablished wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

They came out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us: but in order that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

They are of the world: on this account they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

For the sake of his name they went out, receiving nothing from the Gentiles.

But these blaspheme so many things as they know not: and so many things as they understand naturally, like irrational animals, in these they are corrupted.

Woe unto them! because they have gone off in the way of Cain, and in the delusion of Balaam they have been seduced by reward, and they perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of them for all the works of their ungodliness which they have impiously done, and for all their hard speeches which they have spoken against him, being ungodly sinners.

that they said to you, At the last time there will be mockers, walking according to their own lusts after ungodly things.

These are they who are sidetracking [the people], intellectual, not having the Spirit.

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and that you are not able to bear the wicked; and you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them to be liars:

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

Behold, I cast her on a bed, and those who commit fornication along with her into great tribulation, until they shall repent of her works.

But I say to you, the rest who are among the Thyatireans, so many as have not this teaching, whosoever have not known the depth of Satan, as they say; I cast upon you no other burden.

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

Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are lying; behold, I will make them that they shall come and worship before thy feet, and may know that I have loved thee with divine love.

And the four living creatures having six wings, one opposite one of them; filled with eyes without and within; and they cease not day and night, saying; Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Omnipotent, who was, and who is, and who is the one coming.

saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord truly our God, to receive glory and honor and power: because thou hast created all things, and through thy will they were, and were created.

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to receive the book, and to open its seals: because thou wast slain, and didst with thy blood redeem unto God out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

and didst make them a kingdom and priests unto our God: and they shall reign on the earth.

And there went out a red horse: and to him sitting on him it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they shall slay one another: and a great sword was given him.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw beneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain on account of the word of God, and the testimony which they had.

And they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell upon the earth?

And a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them, that they should wait a little while, until their fellow-servants and brethren, who are about to be slain as they were should be fulfilled.

and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the one sitting upon the throne, and the wrath of the Lamb:

and they are crying with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God, the one sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb.

And one of the elders responded, to me saying, Who are these who are clothed in white robes, and whence came they?

On account of this they are before the throne of God, and they worship him day and night in his temple, and the one sitting upon the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

And they will never hunger or thirst any more; neither will the sun, or any heat, fall on them:

And the seven angels, those having the seven trumpets, prepared themselves that they should sound.

And the name of the star is called Apsinth. And the third part of the waters became apsinth; and many of the men died from the waters, because they were bitter.

And it was said to them that they shall not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree; only the men who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads.

And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he may strike a man.

And in those days men will seek death, and will not find it; and they will desire to die, and death flies from them.

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses rushing to war.

And they have tails like scorpions, and stings: and their power is in their tails, to hurt men five months:

and they have over them a king, the angel of the bottomless pit, to him the name is Abaddon in Hebrew, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, that they should slay the third part of the men.

For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do hurt.