How faithful he was to the God who appointed him! For while Moses also was faithful in all God's house,

But observe how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the Patriarch, gave a tenth part of the spoils.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

How much surer, think you, will be the punishment of one who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has profaned that covenant blood with which he was sanctified, and has done despite to the spirit of grace?

You see how faith was cooperating with deeds, and faith was made perfect by deeds.

So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark!

So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you!

Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness.

when they see how pure and reverent you are.

then be sure that the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the wicked (who are even now enduring punishment) for the "Day of Judgment";

This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions."

I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.

And with a loud voice they cried, saying, "O Master, holy and true, How long dost thou not judge And avenge our blood On those who dwell on the earth?"

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the bottomless pit, and to go into perdition. And those who dwell on the earth shall wonder, those whose names have never, from the foundation of the world, been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, when they gaze on the beast; how he was and is not, and is to come.