Do you see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only?

Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

For in many things we all offend. If any one offends not in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be.

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not.

You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friend ship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.

Do not speak evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away?

Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

You have condemned and killed the Just One: and he does not set himself against you.

Indulge not in complaints against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by heaven, or by the earth, or with any other oath: but let your yes, be yes, and your no, be no, lest you fall into condemnation.

Elijah was a man with passions like our own; and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

in respect to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for us,

-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.

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;

because you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers,

having been begotten again, not with corruptible seed, but with incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.

For it is contained in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, chosen, precious; and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

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

as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the perverse.

When he was reviled, he did not revile again; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously.

Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be won by the conduct of their wives,

Let not your adorning be that which is outward, which consists in plaiting the hair, and wearing gold, and putting on apparel:

Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, bestowing honor on the wife as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

not repaying evil for evil, nor reviling for reviling, but, on the other hand, blessing, since you know that for this end you were called, that you might inherit blessing.

But yet, if you even suffer for righteousness, happy are you. Yet fear not their terror, nor be troubled:

the likeness of which, even immersion, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the seeking of a good conscience toward God,) does now also save us, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

They are amazed at this that you run not with them into the same excess of debauchery, and they revile you.

Beloved, be not amazed at the fiery trial that has come on you to try you, as if some strange thing had happened to you.

But if any one suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this account.

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?

Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind:

And when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive the crown of glory that fades not away.

Wherefore, I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eye-witnesses of his majesty.

for the prophecy came not at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

and, with delusive words, they will, through covetousness, make gain of you: the condemnation, long ago denounced against these, delays not, and their destruction does not slumber.

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and delivered them over to chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment;

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;

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:

But these men, like beasts with out reason, which follow the instinct of nature, and are made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption,

having eyes that are full of the adulteress, and that can not cease from sin, deceiving unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, accursed children,

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

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord does not delay concerning his promise, as some men count delay, but he is long-suffering toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My little children, I write these things to you, that you may not sin: and yet, if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

And he is the expiation for our sins: not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world.

He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

He that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness; and he knows not whither he goes, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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.

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

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

"Whoever denies the Son, has not the Father: he that con fesses the Son, has the Father also.

And the anointing which you have received from him abides in you; and you have no need that any one should teach you: but, as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and is no lie, even as it has taught you, abide in it.

And now, little children, abide in him, that when he appears, we may have confidence, and may not be made ashamed by him at his coming.

Behold, how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! For this reason, the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Whoever abides in him, sins not. Whoever sins, has neither seen him nor known him.

Whoever has been begotten of God does not work sin; because his seed remains in him: and he can not sin, because he has been begotten of God.

By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother.

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.

Wonder not, my brethren, if the world hates you.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?

My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence to ward God,

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

and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.

We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

He that loves not, does not know God; for God is love.

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment: he that fears is not made perfect in love.

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?

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

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

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in him self: he that believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony which God has borne concerning his Son.

He that has the Son, has life: he that has not the Son of God, has not life.

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.

All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.

We know that whoever has been begotten of God, does not sin: but he that is begotten of God, keeps himself, and the wicked one touches him not.

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;

And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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.

Look to yourselves, that we lose not the things that we have gained, but that we receive a full reward.

Whoever transgresses, and abides not in the teaching of the Christ, has not God: he that abides in the teaching of the Christ, has both the Father and the Son.

If any one comes to you, and brings not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and do not wish him well:

Though I have many things to write to you, I determined not to communicate them by means of paper and ink: for I hope to come to you, and to speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full.

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