Do you also have long patience, confirm your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

if any one is sick among you, let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for the prayer of the righteous operates with great power.

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land for three years and six months;

to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you

In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials,

Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

because it is written, Be you holy, for I am holy.

who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but made manifest in these last times for you,

For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass has withered, and its flower fell off;

for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

Be subject therefore to every human government, for the Lord's sake, whether to the king, as superior,

to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;

for this is the will of God, that by well-doing you may silence the ignorance of foolish men;

as free, and not using freedom for a cloak of vice, but as servants of God.

For this deserves thanks, if on account of a knowledge of God one endures pain, suffering unjustly.

For what glory is it if when you sin and are punished you bear it patiently? But if you do well and suffer and bear it patiently, [this deserves thanks], for it is acceptable to God.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps,

For you were like lost sheep, but are now returned to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands,

not returning evil for evil or railing for railing, but on the contrary blessing [your enemies], because to this you are called, that you may inherit blessing.

For he that will love life and see good days, let him withhold his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,

for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,

For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God allows, than doing evil.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,

And for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

above all things have fervent love one for another, for love hides a multitude of sins.

If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

For it is time for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it first begins with us, what will the end be of those that obey not the gospel of God?

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do you all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you.

To him be the glory and the power for ever; amen.

and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.

For thus shall you have an abundant entrance given you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known to you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when this voice was brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but moved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God,

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment,

and delivered righteous Lot, vexed by the lewd conduct of the wicked;??8 for that righteous man living among them vexed his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their wicked deeds;??9 the Lord knows how to deliver the pious from trial, and to keep the wicked to the day of judgment to be punished,

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant.

For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.

For it is better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,

But the present heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being kept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men.

But we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,

and he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but for all the world.

for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.

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 from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning; that we should love one another;

By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

for if our minds condemn us, God is greater than our minds and knows all things.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God.

He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

If any one says, I love God, and hates 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?

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous;

for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.

This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus, the Christ; not by water only, but by water and by blood; and the Spirit is that which testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.

For there are three that testify; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are one.

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

If any one sees his brother commit 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 say not that you should pray for it.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh; this is the deceiver, and the antichrist.

for he that salutes him is a partaker of his evil works.

For I rejoiced exceedingly when the brothers came and testified of your truth, as you walk in truth.

For they went out for his name, taking nothing of the gentiles.

We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be co-laborers for the truth.

Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity to write and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day;

Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah.

wild waves of the sea foaming with their own shame, wandering stars to which is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate desires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of persons for the sake of gain.

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

to God our only Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power and authority before all worlds, both now and for ever more; amen.

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

and you have patience, and suffered for my name, and did not faint.

Be watchful, confirm the rest who are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God.

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

For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

Thou art worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things, and on account of thy will they are and were created.

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four cherubs, saying, A choenix [a quart] of wheat for a denarius [14 cents], and three choenices of barley for a denarius; and injure not the oil and wine.