As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, even so do these resist the truth, men they are of corrupt minds, and lewd as concerning the faith:

but they shall prevail no longer. For their madness shall be uttered unto all men as theirs was.

And forasmuch also as thou hast known holy scripture of a child, which is able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

For this cause left I thee in Crete: that thou shouldest perform that which was lacking and shouldest ordain elders in every city as I appointed thee.

For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

and such as cleaveth unto the true word of doctrine, that he may be able to exhort with wholesome learning, and to improve them that say against it.

And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,

And let ours also learn to excel in good works as far forth as need requireth, that they be not unfruitful.

yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, though I be as I am, even Paul aged, and now in bonds for Jesus Christ's sake.

Nevertheless, without thy mind, would I do nothing, that that good which springeth of thee should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

not now as a servant: but above a servant, I mean a brother beloved, specially to me: but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and also in the Lord?

If thou count me a fellow, receive him as myself.

and is more excellent than the angels, inasmuch as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than have they.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. They all shall wax old as doth a garment:

and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art always, and thy years shall not fail."

Forasmuch as he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause's sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Forasmuch, then, as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them, for to put down through death him that had lordship over death: that is to say, the devil.

which was faithful to him that made him even as was Moses in all his house.

And this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses; Inasmuch as he which hath prepared the house, hath most honour in the house.

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a minister, to bear witness of those things which should be spoken afterward.

But Christ, as a son, hath rule over the house, whose house we are, so that we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of that hope, unto the end.

Wherefore, as the holy ghost saith, "Today if ye shall hear his voice,

so long as it is said, "Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when ye provoked."

For unto us was it declared, as well as unto them. But it profited not them that they heard the word, because they which heard it coupled it not with faith.

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

Again he appointeth in David a certain present day after so long a time, saying as it is rehearsed, "This day if ye hear his voice, be not hard hearted."

For he that is entered into his rest doth cease from his own works, as God did from his.

For we have not a high priest, which cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but was in all points tempted, as we are: but yet without sin.

For the which infirmities sake, he is bound to offer for sins, as well for his own part, as for the peoples.

And no man taketh honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

As he also in another place speaketh, "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

For when as concerning the time, ye ought to be teachers, yet have ye need again that we teach you the first principles of the word of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat:

if they fall away, should be renewed again unto repentance: Forasmuch as they have, as concerning themselves, crucified the son of God afresh, making a mock of him.

which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast. Which hope also entereth in, into those things which are within the veil,

This Melchizedek, king of Salem - which being priest of the most high God, met Abraham, as he returned again from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:

Which needeth not daily - as yonder high priests - to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's sins. For that did he at once for all, when he offered up himself:

which priests serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things: even as the answer of God was given unto Moses when he was about to finish the tabernacle: "For take heed," said he, "that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount."

Now hath he obtained a more excellent office, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better testament, which was made for better promises.

Wherewith the holy ghost this signifying, that the way of holy things was not yet opened, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing,

which was a similitude for the time then present, and in which were offered gifts and sacrifices that could not make them that minister perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

For if the blood of oxen, and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer, when it was sprinkled, purified the unclean, as touching the purifying of the flesh:

For the testament taketh authority when men are dead: For it is of no value as long as he that made it is alive.

Not to offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with strange blood:

And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,

and let us not forsake the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the manner of some is: but let us exhort one another, and that so much the more, because ye see that the day draweth nigh.

Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be counted worthy, which treadeth underfoot the son of God: and counteth the blood of the testament as an unholy thing, wherewith he was sanctified, and doth dishonour to the spirit of grace.

By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

And therefore sprang thereof one - and of one which was as good as dead - so many in multitude, as the stars of the sky, and as the sand of the sea shore which is innumerable.

In faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, as concerning things to come.

By faith he forsook Egypt, and feared not the fierceness of the king. For he endured, even as he had seen him which is invisible.

By faith they passed through the reed sea as by dry land, which when the Egyptians had assayed to do, they were drowned.

And ye have forgotten the consolation which speaketh unto you, as unto children, "My son despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him:

If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not?

and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright.

No doubt the same that he sayeth, "yet once more," signifieth the removing away of those things which are shaken, as of things which have ended their course: that the things which are not shaken may remain.

Remember them that are in bonds, even as though ye were bound with them. Be mindful of them which are in adversity, as ye which are yet in your bodies.

Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit yourselves to them, for they watch for your souls, even as they that must give accounts for them: that they may do it with joy, and not with grief. For that is an unprofitable thing for you.

forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.

But let him ask in faith, and waver not. For he that doubteth is like the waves of the sea, tossed of the wind, and carried with violence.

and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.

For as soon as he hath looked on himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what his fashion was:

If ye fulfil the royal law - according to the scripture which saith, "Thou shalt love thine neighbour as thyself" - ye do well.

But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors.

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, even so faith without deeds is dead.

Ye lust, and have not. Ye envy and have indignation, and cannot obtain. Ye fight and war, and have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness.

Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that dwell here and there as strangers throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia;

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves unto your old lusts of ignorance:

But as he which called you is holy, even so be ye holy in all manner of conversation,

Forasmuch as ye know how that ye were not redeemed with corruptible gold and silver from your vain conversation, which ye received by the traditions of the fathers,

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb undefiled, and without spot,

And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,

and as newborn babes desire that reasonable milk which is without corruption, that ye may be grown therein.

to whom ye come as unto a living stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God and precious:

and ye, as living stones, are made a spiritual house, and a holy priesthood, for to offer up spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,

and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

Submit yourselves unto all manner ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be unto the King as unto the chief head;

other unto rulers, as unto them that are sent of him, for the punishment of evil doers: but for the laud of them that well do.

as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness: but even as the servants of God.

For ye were as sheep going astray: but are now returned unto the shepherd, and bishop of your souls.

even as Sara obeyed Abraham and called him "Lord" - whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, not being afraid of every shadow.

Likewise, ye men, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as unto them that are heirs also of the grace of life, that your prayers be not let.

In conclusion, be ye all of one mind, one suffer with another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous,

having a good conscience, that when they backbite you as evil doers, they may be ashamed, forasmuch as they have falsely accused your good conversation in Christ.

Forasmuch as Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, for to bring us to God, and was killed, as pertaining to the flesh: but was quickened in the spirit.

Forasmuch as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he which suffereth in the flesh ceaseth from sin,

that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

As every man hath received the gift, minister the same one to another as good ministers of the manifold grace of God.

If any man speak, let him talk as though he spake the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God ministereth unto him. That God, in all things, may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and while the world standeth. Amen.

Dearly beloved, be not troubled in this heat, which now is come among you to try you, as though some strange thing had happened unto you:

but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's passions, that when his glory appeareth, ye may be merry and glad.

See that none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or an evil doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

If any man suffer as a Christian man, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God on his behalf.