And withal they learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers and busy bodies, speaking what they ought not.

Some mens sins are manifest before-hand, going before to judgment: and some they follow after.

In like manner the good works also of some are manifest; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them a service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

But they that desire to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

Treasuring up for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Therefore I suffer all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is through Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

But avoid profane empty babblings; for they will increase to more ungodliness.

But avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strife:

And they may awake out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

From these also turn away. For of these are they who creep into houses, and captivate silly women laden with sins, led away by various desires,

But they shall proceed no farther; for their folly shall be manifest to all men, as theirs also was.

For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but will heap to themselves teachers, according to their own desires, having itching ears.

And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

For there are many unruly vain-talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision,

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of filthy gain.

This witness is true; therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

They profess to know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and void of judgment as to every good work.

That they instruct the young women to be wise, to love their husbands,

not answering again, Not stealing, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may in all things adorn the gospel of God our Saviour.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, to the end that they who have believed in God, be careful to excel in good works: these things are good and profitable to men.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Send forward with diligence Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, that they may want nothing.

And let ours also learn to excell in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

Being made so much higher than the angels, as he hath by inheritance a more excellent name than they.

They shall perish, but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all ministring spirits, sent forth to serve for them who shall inherit salvation?

For both he that sanctifieth, and all they that are sanctified, are of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren;

Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their hearts, and they have not know my ways.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

For who, when they had heard, provoked God?

Were they not all that came out of Egypt by Moses? And with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them who had sinned?

Whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he, that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

So we see, they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

For we that have believed, do enter into the rest; as he said, I have sworn in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest, though the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he saith thus in a certain place, of the seventh day, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works: And in this again, They shall not enter into my rest.

and they to whom the gospel was preached before,

And have fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

And verily they of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment (according to the law) to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brethren, tho' they come out of the loins of Abraham.

And they truly were many priests, because they were hindered by death from continuing.

Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

And they shall not teach every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least to the greatest.

And for this end he is the Mediator of a new covenant, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, having been once purged, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and embraced them, and confest that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

For they who speak thus, shew plainly, that they seek their own country.

And truly if they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to return.

But they now desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared a city for them.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months, by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

By faith they passed thro' the Red Sea, as by dry land, which the Egyptians trying to do, were drowned.

others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, tormented:

(Of whom the world was not worthy) they wandered in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves of the earth.

did not receive the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they might not be perfected without us.

For they, verily, for a few days chastned us as they thought good: but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

and blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard intreated that the word might not be spoken to them any more.

For they could not bear that which was commanded, If even a beast touch the mountain, let it be stoned.

for if they escaped not who refused him that delivered the oracle on earth, much more shall not we, who turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is good, that the heart be stablished with grace, not with meats, in which they that have walked have not been profited.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves; for they watch over your souls, as they that must give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with groans: for that is unprofitable for you.

They of Italy salute you. Grace be with you all.

Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to the judgment-seats? Do not they blaspheme that worthy name, by which ye are called?

So speak ye and so act, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Behold we put bits into the horses mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

Behold also the ships, tho' they are so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet are turned about by a very small helm, whithersoever the pilot listeth.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

To whom it was revealed, that not for themselves, but for us they ministered the things which have been now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven: which things angels desire to look into.

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, to them who stumble, not believing the word, whereunto also they were appointed.

which war against the soul, Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may, without the word, be won by the conversation of the wives,

For he that loveth life and desireth to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak no guile:

Having a good conscience, that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Wherein they think it strange, that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot,

For to this end was the gospel preached to them that are dead also, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

And through covetousness will they with feigned speeches make merchandize of you, whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: presumptuous, self-willed; they are not afraid to rail at dignities:

But these, as natural brute beasts, born to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand not, and shall perish in their own corruption,

Receiving the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to riot in the day time; spots and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings, while they feast with you,

For by speaking swelling words of vanity, they allure thro' the desire of the flesh, thro' wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them that live in error.

While they promise them liberty, themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him he is also brought into slavery.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, thro the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein and overcome, their last state is worse then the first.

walking after their own desires, Saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the word of God of old the heavens were and the earth, standing out of the water and in the water,

As also in all his epistles, speaking therein of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

They are of the world; therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

For they went forth for his sake, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

But these rail at all the things which they know not: and all the things which they know naturally, as the brute beasts, in these they are defiled.

Wo to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

These are spots in your feasts of love, while they banquet with you feeding themselves without fear: clouds without water, driven about of winds; trees without leaves, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the grievous things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

For they told you, In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly desires.

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

Happy is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things which are written therein: for the time is near.

Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they who have pierced him: and all the tribes of the earth shall wail because of him.