But I wanted to do nothing without thy mind, so that thy goodness might not be as from obligation, but from volition.

Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.

For those who believe enter into that rest, just as he said, So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest, although the works occurred from the foundation of the world.

For he spoke somewhere about the seventh this way, And God rested during the seventh day from all his works,

For a man who has entered into his rest, he has also rested from his works, as God did from his own.

And there is no creature concealed from his presence, but all things are naked and vulnerable to his eyes, before whom is the word to us.

For every high priest taken from men is appointed for men in things toward God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with strong shouting and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence,

although being a Son, he learned obedience from the things that he suffered.

About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing.

Therefore having left the word of the primacy of Christ, let us be brought forward to perfection, not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For the soil that has drunk the rain often coming upon it, and bringing forth vegetation useful for those by whom also it is cultivated, partakes of a blessing from God.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, also blessed him.

Now indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have commandment to collect tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, although having come out of the loins of Abraham.

But the man who did not descend from them has received tithes from Abraham, and has blessed the man having the promises.

For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, from which no man has attended to the altar.

For such a high priest is fitting for us, devout, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens.

And they will, no, not teach each man his fellow citizen, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all will know me, from their small as far as their great.

this signifying from the Holy Spirit, the way into the holy things is not yet to be made known while the first tabernacle still remains.

how much more the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself unblemished to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order to serve a living God?

since it would be necessary for him to suffer often, from the foundation of the world. But now once, at the end of the ages, he was made known for an annulment of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

let us approach with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed in pure water.

Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses.

But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.

By faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by the word of God. For the things that are seen do not come to be from that which is visible.

And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

And therefore from one man, and these things having become deadened, were begotten as the stars of the heaven for multitude, and as the sand of the seashore, countless.

All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.

And if indeed they remembered that from which they came out, they would have had time to return.

Having reckoned that God is able to raise up even from the dead, from where also, in a figure, he did receive him back.

Women took hold of their dead from a resurrection, but others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, so that they might experience a superior resurrection.

Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be defiled,

Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,

We have an altar from which they have no right to eat, those officiating at the tabernacle.

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant--our Lord Jesus--

Salute all those who lead you, and all the sanctified. The men from Italy salute you.

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

For that man should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

then are ye not partial among yourselves, and become judges from evil thoughts?

But some man will say, Thou have faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith from thy works, and I will show thee from my works my faith.

But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Was not Abraham our father made righteous from works, having offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?

Thou see that faith was working with his works, and from the works, faith was fully perfected.

Ye see therefore that from works a man is made righteous, and not from faith only.

And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot made righteous from works, having received the agents, and having sent them out another way?

Does the spring pour out from the same opening the sweet and the bitter?

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.

This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic.

But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?

Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Brothers, if any man among you may be led astray from the truth, and some man converts him,

let him know that he who converts a sinful man from his wandering way, will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

To whom it was revealed, that they were serving not themselves, but you, those things that were now reported to you by those who preached good-news to you in Holy Spirit, which was sent forth from heaven, into which things heavenly

Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,

Men who, because of him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, in order for your faith and hope to be in God.

Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

Therefore of Christ having suffered in flesh for us, arm ye yourselves also with the same mentality, because he who has suffered in flesh has ceased from sin,

Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified.

Because the time to begin judgment is from the house of God, and if first from us, what is the end of those who disobey the good-news of God?

Because of which, the precious and greatest promises have been given to us, so that through these ye might become companions of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in lust.

For having received from God the Father honor and glory from a voice of such kind brought to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, the beloved in whom I am well pleased.

For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from since the fathers became asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation.

Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment that ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that ye heard from the beginning.

I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome evil. I write to you, children, because ye know the Father.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have know him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome evil.

Children, it is the last hour. And as ye heard that the antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have developed, from which we know that it is the last hour.

They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but--so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

And ye have an anointing from the Holy, and ye know all the things.

Therefore ye, let what ye heard from the beginning abide in you. If what ye heard from the beginning abides in you, ye also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

And for you, the anointing that ye received from him abides in you, and ye have no need that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you about all things, and is TRUE and is no lie, and just as it taught you, ye will a

He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love each other.

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

and whatever we may ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do things pleasing in his sight.

And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit that he gave us.

We are of God. He who knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit.

And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

Because everything that has been begotten from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

And if we know that he hears us, whatever we may ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.

Little children, guard yourselves from the idols. Truly.

Grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.