For this cause, when I could no longer endure, I also sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you and our labor may have been in vain.

But now when Timothy came from you to us and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us (as we also you),

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified).

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

But of the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I write to you.

Therefore, my brothers, stand fast and hold the teachings which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

Finally, my brothers, pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified, even as it also is with you.

And pray that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not have the faith.

And we have confidence in the Lord regarding you, that you both do and will do the things which we command you.

(not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, to imitate us).

And if anyone does not obey our word by this letter, mark that one and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

from which some, having swerved, have turned aside to foolish talking,

holding faith and a good conscience, which some have put away and made shipwreck as to faith.

Among these are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

But he must also have a good report from those on the outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

Having suggested these things to the brothers, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the Words of Faith and by the good doctrine which you have followed.

having guilt because they have cast off the first faith.

For some have already turned aside after Satan.

And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers. But rather let them serve, because they are faithful and beloved, those of the good service receiving in return. Teach and exhort these things.

meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

For this cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard My deposit unto that Day.

Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and who overthrow the faith of some.

But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,

But continue in the things that you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.

hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,

For we have great joy and consolation over your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.

I entreat you for my child Onesimus, whom I have fathered in my bonds,

whom I resolved to retain with myself, so that for you he might have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel.

If then you have me as a partner, receive him as me.

Yes, brother, that I may have your help in the Lord, refresh my heart in the Lord.

For to which of the angels did He say at any time, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You?" And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?"

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows."

And, "You, Lord, have laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of Your hands.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

You have made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of Your hands.

Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),

Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

For also we have had the gospel preached, as well as them. But the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.

who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest, but He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have begotten You."

of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained since you are dull of hearing.

For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come,

and who have fallen away; it is impossible, I say, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify the Son of God afresh to themselves and put Him to an open shame.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil,

And truly they who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priest, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, from their brothers, though they come out of the loins of Abraham.

For the Law appoints men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the swearing of an oath, after the Law, has consecrated the Son forever, having been perfected.

Now the sum of the things which we have spoken is this: We have such a High Priest, who has sat down on the right of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One have something to offer also.

For if that first covenant had been without fault, then no place would have been sought for the second.

(for then He must have suffered often since the foundation of the world), but now once in the end of the world He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.

Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me.

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have had no pleasure.

Above, when He said, "Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings and offering for sin You did not desire, neither did You have pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the Law),

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

Now, "the Just shall live by faith. But if he draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him."

By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

And this word, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,

Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Let your way of life be without the love of money, and be content with such things as you have, for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!"

Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct:

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

We have an altar of which they have no right to eat, those who serve the tabernacle.

For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

And I beseech you, brothers, allow the word of exhortation. For I have written a letter to you in few words.

But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.

My brothers, do not have the faith of our Lord Christ, the Lord of glory, with respecter of faces.