For there are many disobedient and talkers of vanity, and deceivers of minds, namely they of the circumcision,

whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

This witness is true, wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

They confess that they know God: but with the deeds they deny him and are abominable, and disobedient, and unto all good works discommendable.

And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,

Young men likewise exhort that they be sober minded.

neither be pickers, but that they show all good faithfulness, that they may do worship to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

Warn them, that they submit themselves to rule and power, to obey the officers, that they be ready unto all good works,

that they speak evil of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, showing all meekness unto all men.

This is a true saying. Of these things I would thou shouldest certify, that they which believe God, might be diligent to go forward in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Foolish questions, and genealogies, and brawlings and strife about the law; avoid, for they are unprofitable, and superfluous.

And let ours also learn to excel in good works as far forth as need requireth, that they be not unfruitful.

and is more excellent than the angels, inasmuch as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than have they.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. They all shall wax old as doth a garment:

and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art always, and thy years shall not fail."

Are they not all spirits to do service, sent for to minister for their sakes, which shall be heirs of salvation?

Forasmuch as he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause's sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They ever err in their hearts: they verily have not known my ways,'

so that I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

For some, when they heard, rebelled: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt under Moses.

To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not?

And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

For unto us was it declared, as well as unto them. But it profited not them that they heard the word, because they which heard it coupled it not with faith.

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

And in this place again, "They shall not come into my rest."

Seeing therefore it followeth that some must enter thereinto, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not therein for unbelief's sake.

For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost,

if they fall away, should be renewed again unto repentance: Forasmuch as they have, as concerning themselves, crucified the son of God afresh, making a mock of him.

And verily those children of Levi, which receive the office of the priests, have a commandment to take according to the law, tithes of the people, that is to say, of their brethren, yea though they sprung out of the loins of Abraham.

And among them, many were made priests, because they were not suffered to endure by the reason of death.

not like the testament that I made with their fathers at that time, when I took them by the hands, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in my testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

For this is the testament that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws in their minds, and in their hearts, I will write them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And they shall not teach, every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'know the Lord': For they shall know me, from the least to the most of them.

And for this cause is he the mediator of the new testament, that through death which chanced for the redemption of those transgressions that were in the first testament, they which were called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,

For the law - which hath but the shadow of good things to come, and not the things in their own fashion - can never with the sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

And they all died in faith, and received not the promises: but saw them afar off, and believed them, and saluted them: and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

They that say such things, declare that they seek a country.

Also, if they had been mindful of that country, from whence they came out, they had leisure to have returned again.

But now they desire a better, that is to say a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them, even to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his father and mother, because they saw he was a proper child: neither feared they the king's commandment.

By faith they passed through the reed sea as by dry land, which when the Egyptians had assayed to do, they were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about, seven days.

And the women received their dead raised to life again. Others were racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.

which the world was not worthy of: They wandered in wilderness, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

God providing a better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness.

neither unto the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words: which voice they that heard it, wished away, that the communication should not be spoken to them.

For they were not able to abide that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountain, it must have been stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

See that ye despise not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth; Much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

We have an altar whereof they may not eat, which serve in the tabernacle.

Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit yourselves to them, for they watch for your souls, even as they that must give accounts for them: that they may do it with joy, and not with grief. For that is an unprofitable thing for you.

Salute them that have the oversight of you, and all the saints. They of Italy, salute you.

But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges?

Do not they speak evil of that good name after which ye be named?

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Behold, we put bits into the horses' mouths that they should obey us, and we turn about all the body.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the violence of the governor will:

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Unto which prophets it was declared, that not unto themselves, but unto us, they should minister the things which are now showed unto you, of them which, by the holy ghost sent down from heaven, have preached unto you the things which the angels desire to behold.

and a stone to stumble at, and a rock to offend them which stumble at the word, and believe not that whereon they were set.

and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

Servants obey your masters with all fear, not only if they be good and courteous: but also though they be froward.

Likewise, let the wives be in subjection to their husbands, that even they which believe not the word, may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives:

while they behold your pure conversation coupled with fear.

If any man long after life, and loveth to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak not guile:

Notwithstanding, happy are ye if ye suffer for righteousness' sake. Yea, and fear not though they seem terrible unto you, neither be troubled:

having a good conscience, that when they backbite you as evil doers, they may be ashamed, forasmuch as they have falsely accused your good conversation in Christ.

And it seemeth to them a strange thing that ye run not also with them unto the same excess of riot, and therefore speak they evil of you,

For unto this purpose, verily, was the gospel preached unto the dead; that they should be condemned of men in the flesh, but should live before God in the spirit.

For if these things be among you, and are plenteous, they will make you that ye neither shall be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of the our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the scripture came never by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy ghost.

and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

namely, them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise the rulers. Presumptuous are they, and stubborn, and fear not to speak evil of them that are in authority;

But these, as brute beasts, naturally made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of that they know not, and shall perish through their own destruction,

and receive the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to live deliciously for a season. Spots they are, and filthiness, living at pleasure, and in deceitful ways feasting with you:

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children,

For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.

They promise them liberty, and are themselves the bondservants of corruption. For of whomsoever a man is overcome, unto the same is he in bondage.

For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the knowledge of the Lord, and of the saviour Jesus Christ, they are yet tangled again therein and overcome: then is the latter end worse with them than the beginning.

For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, then after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them.

and say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers died all things continue in the same estate wherein they were at the beginning."

This they know not - and that willingly: how that the heavens a great while ago were, and the earth that was in the water appeared up out of the water by the word of God:

yea, almost in every epistle, speaking of such things: among which are many things hard to be understood: which they that are unlearned and unstable pervert, as they do other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

They went out of us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But that fortuned, that it might appear that they were not of us.

All that are born of God do no sin, for his seed abideth in them, and they cannot sin, because they be born of God.

Ye beloved, believe not every spirit: but prove the spirits whether they be of God, or not: for many false prophets are gone out in to the world.

They be of the world, and therefore speak they of the world, and the world attendeth unto them.

because that for his name's sake they went forth, and took nothing of the gentiles.

For there are certain craftily crept in, of which it was written aforetime unto such judgement. They are ungodly, and turn the grace of our Lord God unto wantonness; And deny God the only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

But these speak evil of those things which they know not. In those things which they know naturally - as beasts which are without reason - they corrupt themselves.

Woe be unto them, for they have followed the way of Cain, and are utterly given to the error of Balaam for lucre's sake, and are cast away in the treason of Korah.

These are spots which of your kindness feast together, without fear, feeding themselves. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds: and trees without fruit at gathering time, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots.

They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the mist of darkness forever.

to give judgment against all men, and to rebuke all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their cruel speakings, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, whose mouths speak proud things. They have men in great reverence because of advantage.

how that they told you that there should be beguilers in the last time, which should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

Happy is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein. For the time is at hand.

Behold, he cometh with clouds, and all eyes shall see him: and they also which pierced him. And all kindreds of the earth shall wail. Even so, amen.