Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [worlds] in Christ,

by reading which you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,??5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

Let him that has stolen steal no more, but rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he may have to give to him that needs.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit for a portion in the inheritance of the saints in light,

And you, formerly alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, he has now reconciled

the mystery concealed from ages and from generations, but now it has been manifested to his saints,

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

having blotted out what was written by the hand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from between [us], having nailed it to the cross;

Let no one wishing [it] deprive you of your reward by humility and a worship of angels, intruding into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind,

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if any one has a charge against any, as Christ forgave you, so [do] you also,

for he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no respect of persons.

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

And when this letter has been read with you, cause that it be also read by the church of the Laodiceans; and do you also read that from Laodicea.

forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always; and the wrath has come on them to the utmost.

For God has not called us to impurity, but to purity.

for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

and our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us eternal consolation and a good hope by grace,

And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,

But if any widow has children or relatives, let them learn first to support their family and to make returns to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

And if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

well reputed for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has exercised hospitality, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the distressed, if she has pursued every good work.

If any faithful man or faithful woman has widows, let them give them relief, and let not the church be burdened, that it may be able to relieve those really widows.

he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

who only has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no man has seen nor can see; to whom be honor and power eternal; amen.

No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier.

who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

for perhaps he has been separated from you for a time that you may have him back forever,

being made as much greater than the angels as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.

Thou hast loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

For because he has himself suffered, having been tried, he is able to help the tried.

For this man is judged worthy of more glory than Moses, as much as he has more honor than the house [tabernacle] which he built.

HAVING therefore a great chief priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession.

but he whose descent is not reckoned from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who has the promises.

but he, on account of his continuing for ever, has a priesthood which passes not away,

who has no need daily as the chief priests first to present sacrifices for their sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all, having offered himself.

BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens,

but now he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.

the Holy Spirit showing this, that the way into the sanctuary is not made manifest while the first tabernacle yet has a standing,

saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined upon you.

For Christ did not enter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into heaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us,

since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself.

For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.

of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has a great reward.

for he looked for the city which has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer and builder is God.

but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.

whose voice then shook the earth, but now it has been promised, saying, Hereafter once for all I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven.

Know that brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you.

Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has not works? Can faith save him?

So also faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.

For every kind of beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race,

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass has withered, and its flower fell off;

To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

as each has received a gift, minister the same among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,

for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.

My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,

but he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that confesses the Son has the Father also.

And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, as he is pure.

No one that continues in him sins; no one that sins has seen him, or known him.

No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Every one that hates his brother is a murderer; and we know that no murderer has eternal life continuing in him.

And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?

By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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

He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we continue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, the Saviour of the world.

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

If any one says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.

for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son.

He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son has not the life.

We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin, but he that has been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding that we may know the true One; and we are in the true One, in his Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God, and eternal life.

Every one who goes beyond, and continues not in the doctrine of Christ, is without God. He that continues in the doctrine has both the Son and the Father.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but good. He that does good is of God; he that does evil has not seen God.

and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day;

Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that conquers will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.

Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; He that conquers shall not be injured by the second death.