for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;

but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:

For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.

But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;

for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

(For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that ye should be written to,

when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to you has been believed,) in that day.

Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because it will not be unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;

nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:

not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,

according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

maintaining faith and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.

to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.

for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which is in Christ Jesus.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

borne witness to in good works, if she have brought up children, if she have exercised hospitality, if she have washed saints' feet, if she have imparted relief to the distressed, if she have diligently followed every good work.

being guilty, because they have cast off their first faith.

For already some have turned aside after Satan.

If any believing man or woman have widows, let them impart relief to them, and let not the assembly be charged, that it may impart relief to those that are widows indeed.

Those that sin convict before all, that the rest also may have fear.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort.

For we have brought nothing into the world: it is manifest that neither can we carry anything out.

For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

of which some having made profession, have missed the faith. Grace be with thee.

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,

to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle and teacher of the nations.

For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

Have an outline of sound words, which words thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

Thou knowest this, that all who are in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me.

The word is faithful; for if we have died together with him, we shall also live together;

Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.

men who as to the truth have gone astray, saying that the resurrection has taken place already; and overthrow the faith of some.

If therefore one shall have purified himself from these, in separating himself from them, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work.

and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;

who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain.

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

The word is faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

An heretical man after a first and second admonition have done with,

When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, use diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have decided to winter there.

For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

I exhort thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

whom I have sent back to thee: but do thou receive him, that is, my bowels:

but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:

but if he have wronged thee anything or owe anything to thee, put this to my account.

I Paul have written it with mine own hand; I will repay it: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also to me.

Yea, brother, I would have profit of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.

Being confident of thine obedience, I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say.

For to which of the angels said he ever, Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son?

For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed of it.

For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day.

And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things are naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do.

For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.

Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a high priest; but he who had said to him, Thou art my Son, I have to-day begotten thee.

Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;

Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking is, We have such a one high priest who has sat down on the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens;

For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.