Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law, of works? No, but by a law of faith.

So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.

For this is the word of promise: At this time I will come, and there will be a son by Sarah.

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved.

for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good-news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in Holy Spirit.

Salute each other by a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ salute you.

But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself,

Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

and those who weep, as not weeping, and those who rejoice, as not rejoicing, and those who buy, as not possessing,

But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

If therefore I know not the force of the voice, I will be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are commandments of Lord.

All the brothers salute you. Salute each other by a holy kiss.

And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me.

Salute each other by a holy kiss.

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

Salute all the brothers by a holy kiss.

for ye not to be quickly shaken from your mind, nor to be alarmed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by a letter as by us, as that the day of the Christ has come.

Laying these things down to the brothers, thou will be a good helper of Jesus Christ, reared up in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine that thou have followed.

constant frictions of men corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing piety to be a means of gain. Withdraw from such.

If therefore any man purges himself from these things, he will be a vessel for esteem, sanctified and useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

But I wanted to do nothing without thy mind, so that thy goodness might not be as from obligation, but from volition.

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

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

For certainly if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, there being the priests who offer the gifts according to the law,

Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.

So speak ye, and so do ye, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty.

Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines.

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.

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

And the prayer of faith will rescue him who is depressed, and the Lord will rouse him. And if he should be a man who has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.

Salute each other by a kiss of love. Peace to you, to all those in Christ Jesus. Truly.

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

These men are waterless wells, and clouds driven by a fierce wind, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

I write to you now this second letter, beloved, in which I arouse your sincere mind by a reminder,

And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree that casts its unripe figs being shaken by a great wind.

He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him, and he will be a son to me.