Yes, brother, may I have joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

At the same time, God also testified by signs and wonders, various miracles, and distributions of gifts from the Holy Spirit according to His will.

Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.

for somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way:

And on the seventh day
God rested from all His works.

For the person who has entered His rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from His.

No creature is hidden from Him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.

For every high priest taken from men is appointed in service to God for the people, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

Therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,

For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.

For this Melchizedek—

King of Salem, priest of the Most High God,
who met Abraham and blessed him
as he returned from defeating the kings,

The sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have a command according to the law to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they have also descended from Abraham.

But one without this lineage collected tenths from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

For the One these things are spoken about belonged to a different tribe. No one from it has served at the altar.

Now it is evident that our Lord came from Judah, and Moses said nothing about that tribe concerning priests.

Now many have become Levitical priests, since they are prevented by death from remaining in office.

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

And each person will not teach his fellow citizen,
and each his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know Me,
from the least to the greatest of them.

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

not staying away from our worship meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by God’s command, so that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible.

Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.

These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return.

He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead, and as an illustration, he received him back.

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart.

Make sure that you do not reject the One who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected Him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from Him who warns us from heaven.

Your life should be free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for He Himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you.

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle do not have a right to eat.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep—with the blood of the everlasting covenant,

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who are from Italy greet you.

That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works.

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

Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

See, we count as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back,

let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his life from death and cover a multitude of sins.

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you. These things have now been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Angels desire to look into these things.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

By obedience to the truth, having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.

For it brings favor if, mindful of God’s will, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.

For the one who wants to love life
and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,

and he must turn away from evil
and do what is good.
He must seek peace and pursue it,

If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, a voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory:

This is My beloved Son.
I take delight in Him!

And we heard this voice when it came from heaven while we were with Him on the holy mountain.

First of all, you should know this: No prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation,

because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

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

Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stability.

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

Now this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in Him.

But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the message you have heard.

I am writing to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the One who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have had victory over the evil one.

I have written to you, children,
because you have come to know the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the One who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
because you are strong,
God’s word remains in you,
and you have had victory over the evil one.

For everything that belongs to the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard, “Antichrist is coming,” even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that it is the last hour.

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.

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

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

What you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

The anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, His anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie; just as He has taught you, remain in Him.

The one who commits sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the Devil’s works.

For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need—how can God’s love reside in him?

and can receive whatever we ask from Him because we keep His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.

The one who keeps His commands remains in Him, and He in him. And the way we know that He remains in us is from the Spirit He has given us.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now.

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.

We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

This is how we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given assurance to us from His Spirit.

And we have this command from Him: The one who loves God must also love his brother.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

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

I was very glad to find some of your children walking in the truth, in keeping with a command we have received from the Father.

So now I urge you, dear lady—not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

And this is love: that we walk according to His commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.

since they set out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from pagans.