But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.

If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?

But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." But if you do not commit adultery, yet if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the Law.

and if one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them those things which are needful to the body, what good is it?

But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith from my works.

But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.

This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.

But before all things, my brothers, do not swear; neither by the heaven nor by the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your no, no, lest you fall into condemnation.

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,

To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us, they ministered the things which are now reported to you by those who have preached the gospel to you in the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

but according to the Holy One who has called you, you also become holy in all conduct,

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

indeed having been foreknown before the foundation of the world, but revealed in the last times for you,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever.

but the Word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the Word preached as gospel to you.

For having been drawn to Him, a living Stone, indeed rejected by men, but elect, precious with God;

Therefore to you who believe is the honor. But to those who are disobedient, He is the Stone which the builders rejected; this One came to be the Head of the corner,

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

you who then were not a people, but now the people of God, those not pitied then, but now pitied.

or to governors as sent by Him for vengeance on evildoers, but for praise on well-doers.

as free, and not having freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to those good and forbearing, but also to the perverse ones.

For what glory is it if you patiently endure while sinning and being buffeted? But if you suffer while doing good, and patiently endure, this is a grace from God.

who when He was reviled did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but gave Himself up to Him who judges righteously.

For you were as sheep going astray, but now you are turned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the sight of God.

Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayers. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil.

But if you also suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. And do not fear their fear, nor be troubled,

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

which figure now also saves us, baptism; not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh.

But they shall give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers.

but rejoice according as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, so that when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a meddler in the affairs of others.

But if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God because of this.

Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;

nor as lording it over those allotted to you by God, but becoming examples to the flock.

Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble.

But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, He will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge;

But I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder,

For not having followed fables having been cunningly devised, but becoming eyewitnesses of the majesty of Jesus Christ, we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord.

For prophecy was not borne at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke being borne along by the Holy Spirit.

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

For if God did not spare sinning angels, but thrust them down into Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, being reserved to judgment.

And He did not spare the old world, but saved Noah the eighth one, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,

but had reproof of his lawbreaking, a dumb ass speaking in a man's voice, held back the madness of the prophet.

But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.

But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same Word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

But, beloved, let not this one thing be hidden from you, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up.

But according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

And He is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world.

But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

Brothers, I do not write a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word which you have heard from the beginning.

But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us.

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.

Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who denies the Father and the Son is antichrist.

But the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and no lie, and as He has taught you, abide in Him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation concerning our sins.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. He who fears has not been perfected in love.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by the water and blood. And the Spirit is He who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not continue to sin, but the one born of God guards himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth,

And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

Look to yourselves, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.

Having many things to write to you, I do not want to say with paper and ink. But I trust to come to you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be full.

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us.

Beloved, do not imitate the bad, but the good. He who does good is from God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

I had many things to write, but I will not write to you with pen and ink,

but I trust I shall shortly see you, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.

But I intend to remind you, you once knowing these things, that the Lord having delivered a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed the ones not believing.