For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me—

for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.

But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,

Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to honor and some to dishonor.

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged,

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

But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.

But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which 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 Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

At my first defense no one supported me, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.

Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, 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 their conscience are defiled.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.

But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.

not pilfering, but showing all good faith so that they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in every respect.

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

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

who formerly was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.

but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of 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 he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account;

But of the Son He says,
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,
And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.

They will perish, but You remain;
And they all will become old like a garment,

And like a mantle You will roll them up;
Like a garment they will also be changed.
But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.”

But to which of the angels has He ever said,
“Sit at My right hand,
Until I make Your enemies
A footstool for Your feet”?

But one has testified somewhere, saying,
“What is man, that You remember him?
Or the son of man, that You are concerned about him?

You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham.

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.

And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

And no one takes the honor to himself, but receives it when he is called by God, even as Aaron was.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He 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 their senses trained to discern good and evil.

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.

so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.

who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him,
“The Lord has sworn
And will not change His mind,
‘You are a priest forever’”);

but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently.

For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.

Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,
“Sacrifice and offering You have not desired,
But a body You have prepared for Me;

but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.

But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,

But My righteous one shall live by faith;
And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

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

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.

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

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

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

And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”

For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

But I urge you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;

But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

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

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?