Therefore to him who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

My brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering ill, and of patience.

Behold, we count blessed those who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity and of tender mercy.

know that he who turns back the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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,

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, pass the time of your earthly residence in fear,

those believing in God through Him, He who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture: "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner Stone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him shall never be ashamed."

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,

and a Stone-of-stumbling and a Rock-of-offense to those disobeying, who stumble at the Word, to which they also were appointed.

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.

He who did no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,

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.

Of whom let not be the adorning of garments, or outward braiding of hair and wearing of gold, or of putting on clothing,

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.

And who is the one who will harm you if you become imitators of the good?

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;

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into Heaven, where the angels and authorities and powers are being subjected to Him.

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

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.

Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator.

I exhort the elders who are among you, I being also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.

whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood.

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

according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue,

For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past.

For He received honor and glory from God the Father, when was borne to Him a voice from the excellent glory, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

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.

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.

Where angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reproaching accusation against them before the Lord.

who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

These are wells without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;

promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.

(for the Life was revealed, and we have seen it and bear witness, and show to you the everlasting Life, who was with the Father and was revealed to us),

He who says, I have known Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness until now.

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no offense in him.

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.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known 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 have known the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

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

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

Everyone who denies the Son neither has the Father. The one confessing the Son also has the Father.

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness has been born of Him.

And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.

Everyone who abides in Him does not sin. Everyone who sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as that One is righteous.

He who practices sin is of the Devil, for the Devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might undo the works of the Devil.

Everyone who has been born of God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.

not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

And he who keeps His commandment dwells in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He gave to us.

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

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

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

The one who does not love has not known God. For God is love.

And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

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.

If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

And we have this commandment from Him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him.

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.

He who believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he does not believe the record that God gave of His Son.

He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

I have written these things to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.

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.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the everlasting life.

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,

For many deceivers have entered into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the anti-christ.

Everyone transgressing and not abiding in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son.

For he who speaks a greeting to him is partaker of his evil deeds.

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in the truth.

who in love bore witness of you before the church, whom you will do well to send forward worthily of God;

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

Therefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, ranting against us with evil words. And not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brothers. And he forbids those who would, and casts them out of the church.

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.

wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames; wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

who bore record of the Word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all the things that he saw.

Blessed is the one who reads and hears the Words of this prophecy, and the ones keeping the things written in it, for the time is near.

John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming; and from the seven spirits which are before His throne;

even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.

I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

I, John, who also am your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island that is called Patmos, for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

To the angel of the church of Ephesus write: He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, says these things.

I know your works and your labor and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil. And you tried those pretending to be apostles, and are not, and have found them liars.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The First and the Last, who became dead and lived, says these things:

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.