Buried with him in baptism, in which also you are risen with him through the faith of the working of God, who has raised him from the dead.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

And have put on the new man, that is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him.

Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, cousin to Barnabas, (concerning whom you received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)

For I bear him witness, that he has a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea and them in Hierapolis.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for an example to them who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brothers;

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, you know very well.

No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.

It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own heart:

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that you should receive him forever;

If you count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

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

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him?

You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:

You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

For it befitted him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children whom God has given me.

Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the nature of Abraham.

Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not change, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:)

Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from which also he received him in a figure.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him that endured such hostility of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:

See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:

Let us go forth therefore unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

And you have respect to him that wears the fine clothing, and say unto him, Sit here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool:

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

What does it profit, my brethren, though a man says he has faith, and has not works? can faith save him?

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good life his works with meekness of wisdom.

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

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

And the prayer of faith shall deliver the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

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

Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Therefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any terror.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

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

Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Yet if any man suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.

To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.