For you suffered along with the prisoners, and received with joy the spoliation of your goods, knowing that you have a better and abiding possession.

For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

By faith we understand that the worlds were created by the word of God, and that which was seen was not made from things which are manifest.

By faith Abel offered up to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received the witness that he was righteous, God witnessing to his gifts: and through it he having died is still speaking.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found because God translated him. For before he was translated he had the witness of the Spirit, that he pleased God:

but without faith it is impossible to please him: for it behooves the one coming unto God to believe that he is, and he is a rewarder unto them who seek him out.

These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For those speaking such things declare that they are seeking after a country of their own.

If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an opportunity to return;

but now they seek a better country, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

considering that God is able to raise him from the dead; whence he also received him in a figure.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and did not fear the commandment of the king.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season;

esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he was looking unto the recompense of reward.

By faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, in order that the one destroying the first-born might not touch them.

women receive their dead from a resurrection: some were tortured, not accepting deliverance; in order that they might receive a better resurrection:

God having reserved something better for us, that they might not be made perfect apart from us.

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

looking unto Jesus the beginner and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was placed before him, endured the cross, looking with contempt at the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him who has endured so great a contradiction of sinners against himself, in order that you may not become weary, fainting in your souls.

For they indeed for a few days were accustomed to chastise us according to that which seemed right to them; but he made unto our profit, in order that we might partake his holiness.

and make straight paths for your feet, in order that whatsoever is lame may not be turned out of the way, but rather may it be healed.

For you know that, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance even though having sought it diligently with tears.

For you have not come to the mountain that can be touched, and that is burnt with fire, and unto blackness and darkness, and tempest,

and to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words; which those having heard requested that the word should not be spoken unto them:

for they could not endure that which was spoken, If a wild beast should touch the mountain, it shall be pierced through with a dart:

and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking something better than the blood of Abel.

See that you do not reject the one speaking: for if they escape not having rejected the one delivering them the divine oracles on earth, how much more shall we not escape, who turn away from the one speaking from the heavens:

But he would yet once show the removal of the things shaken, as having been created, in order that the things unshaken may remain.

Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited.

Therefore indeed Jesus, in order that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Therefore let us offer to God a sacrifice of praise continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing to his name.

Obey your leaders, and be submissive: for they are watching for your souls, as they shall give an account that they may do this with joy and not with grief, for this is unprofitable to you.

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wishing in all things to deport ourselves in harmony with the beauty of holiness.

But I the more exhort you to do this, that I may the more speedily be restored unto you.

in every good thing to do his will, doing that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory unto the age of the ages. Amen.

Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance.

But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest.

For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be some first fruit of his creations.

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

For judgment is without mercy to him that shows no mercy; but mercy glorieth against judgment.

Do you believe that there is one God? you do well: the demons also believe and tremble.

Do you wish to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is inefficient?

You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works the faith was made perfect;

You see that a man is justified by works, and not only by faith.

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

But if we put bridles into the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us; and we manage their whole body;

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.

you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.

Whether do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit who dwells in us fights against envy?

Come now, ye who are saying, To-day or to-morrow we will go into that city, and abide there a year, and trade and accumulate:

whosoever do not know that which belongs to the morrow: for what is your life? For you are a vapor, appearing for a moment, and then vanishing away;

on the contrary you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will indeed do this, or that.

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

Do not complain against one another, brethren, in order that you may not be judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors.

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, in order that you may be healed: the inward working prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during three years and six months;

let him know, that the one having turned a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.

that the trial of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, however being tried by the fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

knowing that you have been redeemed from your depraved character transmitted from your ancestors, not by corruptible things, silver or gold,

who through him are faithful toward God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are toward God.

like newly born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, in order that you may grow thereby unto salvation:

if you have tasted that the Lord is good.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light:

having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.

because thus it is the will of God, that doing good you should put to shame the ignorance of the ignorant people:

For unto this you have been called: because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you may follow in his steps:

who himself has borne our sins in his own body on the wood, in order that we, being made free from sins, may live unto righteousness: by whose stripe you are healed.

Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word;

Likewise, ye husbands, dwelling with the wife according to knowledge, as the weaker vessel, extending to them honor, as indeed the equal heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers should not be hindered.

not giving evil for evil, or railing for railing: but on the contrary blessing; because unto this you have been called, that you may inherit the blessing.

having a good conscience, in order that, in whatsoever you are calumniated, those traducing your good deportment in Christ may be ashamed.

For it is better, doing good, if the will of the Lord should will it, to suffer, rather than doing evil.

Because Christ indeed once died for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in spirit:

who at one time were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, the ark being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through the water.

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

For, unto this the gospel was also preached to the dead, in order that they may indeed be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

if any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any one ministers, as from the strength which God supplies; in order that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ; to whom there is glory and power unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

but as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad.

Because it is time that judgment should begin from the house of God: and if it is first from us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

Therefore humble yourselves beneath the mighty hand of God, that he may lift you up in due time:

whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that it is for you to complete the same sufferings in this world along with your brotherhood.

Through Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I consider, I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and witnessing that this same grace of God is true in which you may stand.

through which precious and greatest promises have been given unto us; that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world through lust.

knowing that the laying aside of my tabernacle is swift, as our Lord Jesus Christ also showed to me.

know this in the first place, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.

For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment which has been delivered unto them.

It has happened unto them according to the old proverb, The dog having returned to his own vomit; and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

knowing this first, that at the last days mockers will come forth in scoffing, walking according to their own lusts,

For they willingly forget this, that the heavens were in the olden time, and the earth standing out of the water and through the water, by the word of God;

by which the world at that time, being flooded with water, perished:

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

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some people count slackness; but is long-suffering for your sakes, not wishing that any should perish, but all come to repentance.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have beheld, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of the life;

that which we have seen and heard we also proclaim to you, in order that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.