forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."

But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"

But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."

For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.

whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."

Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."

But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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