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

Paul, a bondman of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the knowledge of truth according to piety,

in hope of eternal life, which the non-lying God promised before times eternal,

but in his own times he made known his word by preaching, which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

to Titus, a genuine child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good, serious minded, just, devout, self-controlled,

They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

Aged women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility,

not pilfering, but demonstrating all good fidelity, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,

Awaiting the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

Remind them to be submissive to principle offices and positions of authority, to be obedient, to be prepared for every good work,

But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared,

Faithful is the saying. And I want thee to strongly insist about these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to manage good works. These things are good and beneficial to men.

And also let our men learn to be in the lead of good works for the essential needs, so that they may not be unfruitful.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God, making recollection of thee always in my prayers,

so that the fellowship of thy faith may become potent (in the knowledge of every good thing in us) for Christ Jesus.

Whom I wanted to keep back for myself, so that in thy behalf he might serve me in the bonds of the good-news.

God, who formerly spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, spoke to us in these last days by a Son,

And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

But toward the Son, Thy throne, O God, is into the age of the age. The scepter of thy kingdom is a scepter of straightness.

Thou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

God also testifying simultaneously by signs and wonders, and by various powers and distributions of Holy Spirit according to his will.

But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the heavenly agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man.

And again, I will be a man who has trusted in him. And again, Behold, I and the children that God has given me.

Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

For every house is built by some man, but he who built all things is God.

Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.

For we also are having good-news preached, just as also those men, but the word of hearing did not benefit those men, not having been mixed together with faith in those who heard.

For he spoke somewhere about the seventh this way, And God rested during the seventh day from all his works,

Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had good-news did not enter because of disobedience,

There remains therefore a Sabbath for the people of God.

For a man who has entered into his rest, he has also rested from his works, as God did from his own.

For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear

Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of the affirmation.

For every high priest taken from men is appointed for men in things toward God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

And not any man takes the honor to himself, but being called by God, just as also Aaron.

having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

Therefore having left the word of the primacy of Christ, let us be brought forward to perfection, not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

And this we will do, if of course God will permit.

and who tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,

and who fell away, to restore again to repentance, crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and disgracing him publicly.

For the soil that has drunk the rain often coming upon it, and bringing forth vegetation useful for those by whom also it is cultivated, partakes of a blessing from God.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.

For God who promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, swore by himself,

By which God, wanting to demonstrate more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutableness of his resolve, confirmed it by an oath.

So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, also blessed him.

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

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

Whereupon he is able also to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him, being always alive in order to intercede on their behalf.

Because this is the covenant that I will ordain with the house of Israel after those days, says Lord, giving my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be to them for a God, and they will be to me fo

But Christ, having arrived a high priest of the good things that are coming, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

how much more the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself unblemished to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order to serve a living God?

saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God made for you.

For the Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, representative of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

For the law having a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the same substance of the events, with the same sacrifices that are offered continually each year, they are never able to fully perfect those who are approaching.

Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of a book it is written about me) to do thy will, O God,

Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, so that he may establish the second.

But this man, having offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

and a great priest over the house of God,

And let us examine each other for provocation of love and good works.

By how much worse punishment do ye think he will deserve who has trampled the Son of God, and who considered profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who treated the Spirit of grace contemptuously?

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

By faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by the word of God. For the things that are seen do not come to be from that which is visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks.

By faith Enoch was transferred to not see death, and he was not found, because God transferred him. For before his removal he was reported to be pleasing to God.

And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

For he anticipated the city that has the foundations, whose builder and architect is God.

But now they aspire for a superior one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

Having reckoned that God is able to raise up even from the dead, from where also, in a figure, he did receive him back.

having chosen rather to be mistreated with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin temporarily.

God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.

Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness.

Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be defiled,

But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of a living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of heavenly agents,

to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

Therefore, receiving an immovable kingdom, we may have grace, through which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and awe.

For our God is also a consuming fire.

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Remember those who lead you, men who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, carefully observing the outcome of their conduct, imitate the faith--

Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

Therefore Jesus also, so that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate.

Through him therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, fruit of lips acknowledging his name.

But do not forget benevolence and fellowship, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

Pray about us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to behave well in all things.

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant--our Lord Jesus--

may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

James, a bondman of God and of Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting.

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.