Do you, however, speak of such subjects as properly have a place in sound Christian teaching.

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

gravity; let your doctrine be sound and inoffensive, that your opponents may be ashamed, and have nothing that is ill to say of us.

Constantly remind people to submit to and obey the rulers who have authority over them, so as to be ready for any good enterprise,

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.

Faithful is the saying. And I want thee to strongly insist about these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to manage good works. These things are good and beneficial to men.

But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.

After a first and second warning reject a divisive man [who promotes heresy and causes dissension—ban him from your fellowship and have nothing more to do with him],

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

Make every effort to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; make sure they have what they need.

Have our people learn to make it their business to do good, so as to meet these pressing demands and not live unfruitful lives.

because I continue to hear of the love and faith you have in the Lord Jesus and all His people,

That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.

Yes, I have felt great joy and encouragement over your love, because the hearts of God's people have been refreshed by you, my brother.

So, although through union with Christ I have full freedom to order you to do your duty,

yes, I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I have become while wearing these chains.

who was formerly unprofitable to thee, but now profitable both to thee and to me; whom I have sent back to thee:

Whom I have sent back to you, him who is my very heart:

I would have liked to keep him with me, to wait on me in your stead while I wear these chains for the good news,

but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:

For perhaps it was for this reason that he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,

If then thou have me a partner, accept him as myself.

but if he have wronged thee anything or owe anything to thee, put this to my account.

I, Paul, have written it with, my own, hand, - I, will repay it ; that I may not tell thee - that, thyself, unto me, thou still owest.

Yes, brother, let me have a favor of thee in Lord. Refresh my bowels in Lord.

Because I am thoroughly persuaded of your obedience, I have written you, knowing full well that you will do by me what I am asking.

And have a guest-room ready for me, too, for I hope that through your prayers I shall have the gracious privilege of coming to you.

and is more excellent than the angels, inasmuch as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than have they.

For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have become your Father"?

Thou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

And, you, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:

They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

For this reason we must pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away.

how shall, we, escape, if, so great a salvation as this, we have neglected, - which, indeed, having received, a beginning, of being spoken through the Lord, by them who heard, unto us was confirmed,

You made Him inferior to angels for a little while, yet you have crowned Him with glory and honor, you have set Him over the works of your hands,

You have put all things under His feet!" Now when He gave Him authority over everything, He did not leave a single thing that was not put under His authority. But as yet we do not see everything actually under His authority,

Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.

Both Jesus who sanctifies and those who are sanctified [that is, spiritually transformed, made holy, and set apart for God’s purpose] are all from one Father; for this reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.

For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.

do not have a stubborn heart like you did when you provoked [God] during the time you tested [His patience] in the desert,

So I was indignant with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have never come to know my ways.'

but encourage one another every day, as long as we can still speak of Today, so that no one of you may have his heart hardened by the pleasantness of sin.

For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

As it has been said [Psa. 95:7], "Today, if you hear His [i.e., God's] voice, do not have a stubborn heart like you did when you provoked [God]."

Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

For we have had the good news told to us as well as they, but the message heard did them no good, because they were not by faith made one with those who heeded it.

For we who have believed are being admitted to that rest, just as He has said: "As in my anger I took oath, they shall not be admitted to my rest," although God's works had been completed at the creation of the world.

So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

God again identified a certain day, [calling it] "Today," in David's [writings], a long time later (just as it was referred to above) [Psa. 95:7-8], "Today, if you hear His [i.e., God's] voice, do not have a stubborn heart."

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things.

which shows that the people of God have a sabbath still to come.

Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

No creature of His can escape God's sight, but everything is bare and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we have to give account.

Since then we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has gone right up to heaven itself, let us continue to keep a firm hold on our profession of faith in Him.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

But solid food belongs to full-grown men who on account of constant use have their faculties trained to distinguish good and evil.

of teaching about washings (ritual purifications), the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. [These are all important matters in which you should have been proficient long ago.]

And we will do so [i.e., go on to more advanced teaching] if God allows us to. For it is impossible to get people who have [completely] fallen away [from God] to repent again, because they [continue to] crucify for themselves God's Son all over again, and hold Him up to contempt.

For it is impossible for those who have once for all been enlightened and have experienced the gift from heaven, who have been made sharers of the Holy Spirit

and have experienced how good God's message is and the mighty powers of the age to come,

and then have fallen by the wayside -- it is impossible, I say, to keep on restoring them to their first repentance, since they continue to crucify the Son of God to their detriment and hold Him up to contempt.

But we are persuaded better things about you, beloved, and things that have salvation, even though we speak this way.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have shown His name in the service you have rendered for your fellow-Christians, and still are doing.

But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:

but imitate the example of those who by faith and patience have obtain'd the inheritance that was promis'd to them.

For men make oath by something greater than themselves, and they accept an oath as settling finally any disagreement they may have.

So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

Which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and that enters into the interior of the veil,

without father, without mother, without genealogy; his days have no beginning, and his life no end; but like the son of God, he was a perpetual priest.

Now see how great this man must have been that even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of his spoils.

Now indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have commandment to collect tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, although having come out of the loins of Abraham.

Now if perfection had been reached through the Levitical priesthood -- for on it as a basis even the law was enacted for the people-- what further need would there have been of appointing a different priest, with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of designating one with the rank of Aaron?

On the one hand we have here the abrogation of an earlier code because it was weak and ineffective--

for the law had never made anything perfect -- and so a better hope is brought to us, through which we have approach to God.

And by as much as [this was] not without an oath (for these on the one hand {have become priests} without an oath,

For, they, indeed, apart from oath-taking, have been made priests, but, he, with an oath-taking, through him that was saying unto him - The Lord sware, and will not regret, - Thou, art a priest, age-abidingly

By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

And of course those who have become priests are more, because of being prevented to continue by death,

It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

one who has no need to offer sacrifices daily as those High Priests have, first for their own sins, and then for those of the People. For this he did once and for all, when he offered himself as the sacrifice.

For the law appoints men high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath after the law, a Son who has been fully perfected into the age.

Now a summation about the things being spoken is, we have such a high priest who was seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

For every high priest is appointed in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices, whereupon it is necessary for this man also have something that he may offer.

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

not according to the alliance that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they have not kept my alliance, wherefore I have rejected them, saith the Lord.

'For this is the agreement that I will make with the house of Israel, In those later days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them on their hearts, And they will have me for their God, And I will have them for my people.

And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.

For I will have mercy upon their wrong-doings, And their sins I will remember no more."

Even the first, indeed, therefore, used to have righteous appointments of divine service, even the holy ritual well arranged.