Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God is without temptation of evils, and he himself tempts no man.

Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.

For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?

Do they not blaspheme the good name that was called upon you?

Thou believe that there is one God, thou do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of God.

By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.

But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.

Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.

Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain--

He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.

chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace be multiplied.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

To whom it was revealed, that they were serving not themselves, but you, those things that were now reported to you by those who preached good-news to you in Holy Spirit, which was sent forth from heaven, into which things heavenly

Men who, because of him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, in order for your faith and hope to be in God.

begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God that lives and remains into the age.

but the word of Lord endures into the age. And this is the word, the good-news that was preached to you.

Coming to whom, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God chosen, precious,

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Men formerly not a people, but now are a people of God. Men who had not obtained mercy, but who now have obtained mercy.

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

Because this way is the will of God, doing good to muzzle the ignorance of the foolish men.

As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God.

Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.

Household servants, submitting to the masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wayward.

For this is graciousness, if, because of consciousness of God, any man endures sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

For what kind of credit is it, if, sinning and being beaten, ye will endure? But if, doing good and suffering, ye will endure, this is graciousness with God.

but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

For this way formerly also, the holy women, trusting in God, adorned themselves, being subordinate to their own husbands,

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became, doing good, and not being afraid of anything fearful.

For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

And who is he who will harm you, if ye become imitators of the good?

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. And always be ready for a defense to every man who asks you a word about the hope in you, with mildness and fear.

Having a good conscience, so that, in what they speak against you as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed, those who revile your good behavior in Christ.

For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God desires, than for doing evil.

Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,

who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

Which counterpart--immersion--now also saves us, not the putting away of filth of flesh, but an appeal of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, agents, and positions of authority, and powers having been subordinated to him.

in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

For good-news was preached even to the dead for this, so that they might indeed be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.

As each has received a gift, serving it for yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified.

But if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this regard.

Because the time to begin judgment is from the house of God, and if first from us, what is the end of those who disobey the good-news of God?

Therefore also let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls as to a faithful Creator by well-doing.

Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily,

Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.

Therefore be lowered under the mighty hand of God, so that he may lift you up in time,

And may the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus (after suffering a little while) himself thoroughly prepare you. He will establish, strengthen, and provide a foundation.

By Silvanus, the faithful brother to you, as I reckon, I wrote because of a few things, exhorting and testifying this to be the TRUE grace of God in which ye stand.

Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

For having received from God the Father honor and glory from a voice of such kind brought to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, the beloved in whom I am well pleased.

For no prophecy was ever brought by a will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being led by Holy Spirit.

For if God did not spare heavenly agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment,

the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment.

For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,

anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot?

And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this man the love of God is fully perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have know him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome evil.

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

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many FALSE prophets have gone out into the world.

By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in flesh is of God,

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.

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

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

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.

No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

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

If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who 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, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we may keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Because everything that has been begotten from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

And who is he who overcomes the world, if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?