There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye have been called to one hope of your calling;

And be not drunk with wine, in which there is sottishness, but be filled with the Spirit;

And ye masters, do the same things to them, avoiding menacing language: knowing that you also yourselves have a master in heaven; and there is no respect of persons with him.

and for me that there may be given unto me utterance to open my mouth with boldness, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are serious, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are laudable, if there be any virtue, or any thing praise-worthy, pay attention to these things.

Where there is no difference whether a man be Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian or Scythian, slave or freeman: but Christ is all and in all.

But he that is guilty of injustice shall receive punishment for the wrong he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

There salute you Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner, and Mark nephew to Barnabas, concerning whom ye have received injunctions; if he come unto you, receive him,

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for there is not faith in all.

For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, doing no work, but being busy-bodies.

for whoremongers, for sodomites, for stealers of men, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing which is contrary to sound doctrine,

I EXHORT therefore, first of all, that there be offered supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings for the whole race of mankind:

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

But if any man or woman who believes hath widows their relations, let him provide for them, and let not the church be burdened; that there may be a sufficiency for the real widows.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and pottery; and some for an honourable use, and others for baser service.

henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: yet not to me only, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

if there be a man blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not under an accusation or debauchery, or disorderly conduct.

For there are many disorderly persons vainly talkative, and under a spirit of delusion, especially some of the circumcised;

All things indeed are clean to the clean: but to the defiled and to the unbelievers there is nothing clean; but their very mind and conscience are defiled.

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me unto Nicopolis: for there I have determined to pass the winter.

that there may be an operative communication of thy faith made known by every good thing, which is in you towards Jesus Christ.

There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus;

Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of you a wicked heart of infidelity, [evident] in departure from the living God:

And here indeed dying men receive the tithes, but there he hath a testimony borne to him that he liveth.

If therefore there was perfection by the Levitical priesthood (for under that the people had the law given to them), what farther need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being transferred, there is of necessity an abrogation of the law also.

and it is yet more abundantly evident, that there should arise another priest after the likeness of Melchisedec,

For there is indeed an abrogation of the preceding command, because of its weakness and inutility.

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

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no place sought for a second.

And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and without effusion of blood there is no remission of sin.

There was a necessity therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

But in these [sacrifices] there is a commemoration of sins every year.

Now where there is remission of these, no more offering for sin [is needed].

Wherefore even from one person, and he become dead in respect to these matters, there sprang a race, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand, which is on the shore of the sea, innumerable.

unto whom it had been said, "That by Isaac shall there be a seed bearing thy name:"

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.

Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descending from the father of illuminations, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of change.

For if there come into your congregation a man with a gold ring, and in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in a sordid garb;

and ye fix your eyes upon him who bears the splendid robe, and say to him, Sit thou here in an honourable place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe and tremble.

For where envy and contention dwell, there is tumult and every vile deed.

There is one lawgiver, who can save or destroy: who art thou that judgest another man?

Come now, ye that talk, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a town, and do business there during one year, and traffic, and make great profits:

Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during three years and six months.

For what glory would there be, if committing faults, and being buffeted, ye suffered patiently? but if, when ye behave well, yet suffer, ye bear it patiently, this is graciously accepted of God.

BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

knowing this principally, that in the last of the days there will come scoffers, walking after their own lewd passions,

And this is the promise which we have heard from him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and that darkness in him there is none.

He that loveth his brother is in the light, and occasion of stumbling in him there is none.

My dear children, it is the last hour; and as ye have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there are many antichrists: by which we know it is the last hour.

And ye know that he was manifested, that he might take away our sins; and in him there is no sin.

And there are three which bear witness upon earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are for the same one object.

If any person see his brother committing a sin not unto death, he shall request, and God will grant him life for those that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I say not that he should request for that.

All unrighteousness is sin; and there is sin not unto death.

how they told you that in the last time there will be scoffers, walking after their own ungodly passions.

Yet I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there some who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to lay a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices, and to commit whoredom.

And there went out another horse flame-coloured; and to him who sat thereon there was power given to take peace from the earth, and that men should kill each other; and there was given to him a great sword.

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo! there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

AND when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God, and there were given to them seven trumpets.

And another angel came, and stood by the altar, holding a golden censer; and there were given to him many perfumes, to offer with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the first angel blew the trumpet, and there were hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast on the earth; and a third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded, and there was cast into the sea as it were a vast mountain burning with fire: and the third part of the sea became blood;

And the third angel blew the trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of water;

And the figures of the locusts were like horses equipped for war; and upon their heads there were as crowns, like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and they had power to hurt men five months.

One woe is past; and, behold, there are coming yet two woes after these.

AND there was given me a cane like a measuring staff; and the angel stood by, saying, Arise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship therein.

And in the same hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and there were slain in the earthquake seven thousand men of note: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world are become our Lord's, and his Messiah's, and he shall reign for ever and ever.

And the temple of God was opened in the heaven, and there appeared the ark of his covenant in his temple: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and earthquake, and a great hail.

AND there appeared a great sign in the heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

And there appeared another sign in the heaven; and lo! a great fiery dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven crowns.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that she might there be fed during a thousand two hundred and sixty days.

Then was there war in the heaven: Michael and his angels warred against the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels,

and they could not prevail; neither was there any more place found for them in the heaven.

And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she should fly into the wilderness, unto her place, where she is supported there for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to make war forty-two months.

And the first angel went, and poured out his vase upon the earth; and there came an ulcer malignant and painful upon the men that had the brand of the beast, and upon those who worshipped his image.

And the fourth angel poured out his vase upon the sun; and there was given to it a charge to burn men with fire.

And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not from the day that men were upon the earth, an earthquake of such a kind, and so great.

And upon her forehead was there a name written, Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother or harlots, and of the abominations of the earth.

And there came a voice out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye servants of his, and all that fear him, both the small and the great.

And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and encircled the camp of the saints, and the beloved city: and there came down fire from God out of heaven, and devoured them up.

AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

And there came to me one of the seven angels who held the seven vases full of the seven last plagues, and he talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

and her gates shall be never shut by day (for there is no night there);

And there shall no more enter into it any thing unclean, or that practises abomination and lying; but only those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

And no accursed thing is there any more; and the throne of God and of the Lamb are in it, and his servants will pay divine worship to him.

And there shall be no night there, and they have no need of a lamp, or the light of the sun; because the Lord God illumines them: and they shall reign for ever and ever.