by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

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

This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."

We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

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

Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;

But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

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.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

On some have compassion, making a distinction,

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;

"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: