Charge them that are rich in this present age, that they be not haughty, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to share;

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day;

Therefore I remind you that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the laying on of my hands.

For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

In which I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and fit for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.

In meekness instructing those that oppose them; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

At my first defense no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began;

But has in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior;

To Titus, my own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not given to dishonest gain;

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;

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

The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing incorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

Not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own, zealous of good works.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

But after the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,

This is a faithful saying, and these things I desire that you affirm constantly, that they who have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

And let our own also learn to maintain good works for urgent needs, that they not be unfruitful.

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,

That the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

God, who at many times and in various manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

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

But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

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

Therefore in all things he had to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.

For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And no man takes this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

But solid food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto maturity; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

And this will we do, if God permits.

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

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 the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for them by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God:

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

So God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

That by two immutable things, in that it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

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;

Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near unto God.

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.

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Now when these things were thus prepared, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded unto you.

For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the ones approaching perfect.

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.

Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second.

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

And having a high priest over the house of God;

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Of how much worse punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done insult unto the Spirit of grace?

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.

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 Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved by fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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.