in connection with which I suffer misfortune to the point of {imprisonment} as a criminal, but the word of God is not bound.

But avoid pointless chatter, for it will progress to greater ungodliness,

Now in a great house [there] are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wooden and earthenware [ones], some of which [are] for honorable use, and some of which [are] for ordinary use.

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.

And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,

But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come,

maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these [people].

But they will not progress to a greater extent, for their folly will be quite evident to everyone, as also the [folly] of those [two] was.

But you have faithfully followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But you continue in [the things] which you have learned and are convinced [of], [because you] know from whom you learned [them],

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, {because they have an insatiable curiosity},

and they will turn away from the hearing of the truth, but will turn to myths.

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Finally, the crown of righteousness is reserved for me, that the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

But I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

At my first defense, no one came to my [aid], but [they] all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.

But the Lord helped me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fulfilled and all the Gentiles might hear, and he rescued [me] from the lion's mouth.

Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus [because he] was sick.

but at the proper time has disclosed his message in the proclamation [with] which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior,

but hospitable, loving what is good, prudent, just, devout, self-controlled,

To the pure all [things] [are] pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure, but both their mind and conscience are defiled.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

But you, speak [the things] which are fitting for sound instruction.

not stealing, but demonstrating all good faith, in order that they may do credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

But when the kindness and love for mankind of God our Savior appeared,

he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.

But also our [people] must learn to engage in good deeds for necessary needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.

Once he [was] useless to you, but now [he is] useful to you and to me,

But apart from your consent, I wanted to do nothing, in order that your good [deed] might be not as according to necessity, but according to [your own] free will.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

But if in anything he has caused you loss or owes [you anything], {charge this to my account}.

but concerning the Son, "Your throne, O God, [is] {forever and ever}, and the scepter of righteous [is the] scepter of your kingdom.

they will perish, but you continue, and they will all become old like a garment,

and like a robe you will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed; but you are the same, and your years will not run out."

But to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit down at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."

But someone testified somewhere, saying, "What is man, that you remember him, or the son of man, that you care for him?

you subjected all [things] under his feet. For in subjecting all [things], he left nothing [that was] not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all [things] subjected to him,

but we see Jesus, for a short [time] made lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that apart from God he might taste death on behalf of everyone.

For surely he is not concerned with angels, but he is concerned with the descendants of Abraham.

For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all [things] [is] God.

but Christ [was faithful] as a son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

But encourage one another {day by day}, as long as it is called "today," so that {none of you become hardened} by the deception of sin.

{For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us}, just as those also [did], but the message {they heard} did not benefit them, [because they] were not united with those who heard [it] in faith.

And no creature is hidden in the sight of him, but all [things are] naked and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom {we must give our account}.

For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all [things] in the same way, without sin.

And someone does not take for himself the honor, but is called by God, just as Aaron also [was].

Thus also Christ did not glorify himself to become high priest, but the one who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you,"

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

But [if it] produces thorns and thistles, [it is] worthless and near to a curse, whose end [is] for burning.

But even if we are speaking in this way, dear friends, we are convinced of better [things] concerning you, and belonging to salvation.

in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God--he remains a priest for all time.

But see how great this man [was], to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth from the spoils!

But the one who did not trace [his] descent from them collected tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

And in this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case it is testified that he lives.

who has become [a priest] not according to a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

(for the law [made] nothing perfect), but on the other hand [there is] the introduction of a better hope through which we draw near to God.

but he with an oath by the one who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You [are] a priest {forever}'"),

but he, because he continues {forever}, holds the priesthood permanently.

For the law appoints men [as] high priests who have weakness, but the statement of the oath, after the law, [appoints] a Son, who is made perfect {forever}.

But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises.

but only the high priest [enters] into the second [tent] once a year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and the [sins] of the people committed in ignorance.

But Christ has arrived [as] a high priest of the good [things] to come. Through the greater and more perfect tent not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,

and not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for all into the [most] holy place, obtaining eternal redemption.

Therefore [it was] necessary [for] the sketches of the [things] in heaven to be purified with these [sacrifices], but the heavenly [things] themselves [to be purified] with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a [mere] copy of the true [one], but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,

since it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now he has appeared once at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

But in them [there is] a reminder of sins {year by year}.

Therefore, [when he] came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

But this one, [after he] had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

not abandoning {our meeting together}, as [is] the habit of some, but encouraging [each other], and by so much more as you see the day drawing near.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries.

But remember the former days in which, [after you] were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him."

But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] souls.

These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.

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

Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection.

But if you are without discipline, in which all [legitimate sons] have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

For they disciplined [us] for a few days according to what seemed [appropriate] to them, but he [does so] for our benefit, in order that [we] can have a share in his holiness.

Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels, to the festal gathering

whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once [more] I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the [city] that is to come.

But let him ask for [it] in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about.

but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass.

But each one is tempted [when he] is dragged away and enticed by his own desires.

But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [to do it], not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed {in what he does}.

If anyone thinks he is religious, [although he] does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion [is] worthless.

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, [and thus] are convicted by the law as transgressors.

For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one [point only] has become guilty of all [of it].

For the one who said "Do not commit adultery" also said "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?

and one of you should say to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and {eat well}," but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what [is] the benefit?