Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive: for they watch for your souls, as those who must give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for that would be fatal to you.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant,

perfect you in every good work, in order that you may do his will, working in you that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory from age to age. Amen.

Know that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

Now, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for, being approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor slightest trace of turning.

Hear, my be loved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to those who love him?

So speak, and so act, as those who shall be judged by the law of liberty.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, who has shown no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

With it we bless God, even the Father: and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.

Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom.

And those who cultivate peace, sow for themselves a harvest of righteousness in peace.

There is one law-giver that is able to save, and to destroy: who are you that judge an other?

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which has been unjustly withheld by you, cries out: and the cries of those who have reaped, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Take, my brethren, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering evil, and of patience.

Behold, we count those happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the final dealing of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

let him know that he who turns back a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, has, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, regenerated us for a living hope

who are kept secure by the power of God through faith, to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time:

-whom, though you have not seen him, yet you love; on whom not now looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory,

to whom it was revealed, that, not for themselves, but for us, they ministered the things that are now preached to you by those who have made known to you the gospel, through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; into which things angels desire to look.

but as he who has called you is holy, so be you holy in all your behavior:

And since you call on the Father, who, without respect of persons, judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

who was indeed foreordained before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for you,

who through him do believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

To you, then, who believe, is this preciousness: but the stone which the builders rejected, has become the head of the corner,

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

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

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

or to governors, as those sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of those who do well.

For, in former times, the holy women also, who trusted in God, thus adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands,

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?

having a good conscience, that, inasmuch as they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who traduce your good con duct in Christ.

who formerly were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were brought in safety through the water;

who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having become subject to him.

For this cause, indeed, even those who have died had the gospel preached to them, that though they might be judged according to the will of men in the flesh, yet they might live according to the will of God in the spirit.

If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any man acts as a deacon, let him do this as from the strength which God supplies; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and strength from age to age. Amen.

For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

Wherefore, let those also who suffer according to the will of God, by doing good, commit their souls to him as to a faithful Creator.

The elders that are among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a sharer in the glory that is to be revealed.

Be sober, be watchful: for your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.

Being firm in the faith, resist him, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.

SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained faith, equally as precious as our own, in the plan of justification revealed by our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

As his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who has called us by his glorious power,

But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came to him from the magnificent glory a voice, such as this: This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight.

and many will follow their dissolute ways, on account of whom the way of truth will be reviled;

and if he spared not the old world, but brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, and saved Noah, the eighth person, who was a preacher of righteousness;

and if, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, he condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who should afterward live in an ungodly manner,

but especially those who walk after the flesh in unclean lust, and who despise government. Presumptuous, willful men! they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries:

whereas angels, who excel in might and in power, bring no railing accusation against them in the presence of the Lord.

who have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

These men are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever.

For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

Who is a liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

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

Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and for what reason did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother s, righteous.

If any man say, I love God, and yet hate 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?

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

If any one see his brother sinning 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 do not say concerning this, that he should ask.

THE elder to the elect lady, and to her children, whom I love in the truth: and not I only, but also all who know the truth;

For many deceivers have entered into the world, who con fess not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh: this is the deceiver and the antichrist.

elder to the beloved Gains, whom I love in the truth.

who have testified to your love before the church: if you conduct these on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well:

I wrote to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.

Therefore, if I come, I will remember his works which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with these things, he does not himself receive the brethren, but both for bids those who are willing, and casts them out of the church.

JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are sanctified in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

For some men have stealthily entered in, who were long ago appointed to this condemnation; ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God, and use it for lascivious purposes, and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus Christ.

But I wish to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people from the land of Egypt, then destroyed those who believed not.

raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame: wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

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

who bore testimony to the word of God, and recorded the testimony of Jesus Christ, what ever things he saw.

Blessed is he that reads, and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it; for the time is at hand.

John to the seven churches that are in Asia, grace be to you and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before his throne;

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loves us, and that has washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Behold, he comes with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and those also who pierced him: and all the tribes of the land shall lament because of him. Even so. Amen.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience; and that you can not bear with those who are evil, and that you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars;

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna, write: These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:

I know your works, and your affliction, and your poverty, (but you are rich,) and the impious words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

I know your works, and where you dwell, even where the throne of Satan is: and yet you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

Yet I have a few things against you, that you have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to practice lewdness.

So, also, you have those who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitanes.

And to the angel of the church in Thyatira, write: These things, says the Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass;

But I have against you that you suffer that woman Jezebel, who calls her self a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my servants to practice lewdness, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds.

But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, and who have not known the depths of Satan, (as they call them,) I will lay on you no other burden:

Behold, I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them come and worship before your feet, and 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 that is about to come on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

And the four living creatures had each of them six wings about him; and they are full of eyes within; and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.

And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him that sits on the throne, who lives from age to age,

And I saw a strong angel crying with a great voice: Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had borne:

And a white robe was given to each of them: and it was said to them, that they should yet rest for a time, till the number of their fellow-servants,, and of their brethren, who should be killed as they had been, should be completed.

for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

And I saw another angel ascending 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 hurt the earth and the sea,

And I heard the number of those who were sealed: a hundred and forty-four thousand were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel.