rather through love I entreat, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

But at once prepare lodging for me, for I hope that through your prayers I shall be given to you.

who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing of our sins, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high,

For it became Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Captain of their salvation through sufferings.

Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),

and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

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

But exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

So then there remains a rest to the people of God.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

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

that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

And truly they who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priest, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, from their brothers, though they come out of the loins of Abraham.

And here men who die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

Therefore if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made in the law also.

And it is still far more evident, since there arises another priest after the likeness of Melchizedek,

For truly there is a putting away of the commandment which went before, because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it.

For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the Law,

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt," because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

"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 their God, and they shall be My people.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."

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?

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again of sins every year.

By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My Laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

also He adds, "their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."

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

by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh;

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

He who despised Moses' Law died without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.

But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments.

Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest He who destroyed the first-born should touch them.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.

who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise,

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

for they could not endure the thing commanded, "And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart,"

Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct:

Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

Now may the God of peace (who brought again our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant)

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

For if there comes a gold-fingered man in fancy clothing into your assembly, and if there also comes in a poor man in shabby clothing,

and if you have respect to him who has the fancy clothing and say to him, You sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, You stand there, or sit here under my footstool;

You believe that there is one God, you do well; even the demons believe and tremble.

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

For where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every foul deed.

There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you who judges another?

Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit,

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

by the power of God, having been kept through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

those believing in God through Him, He who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever.

you also as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

For so once indeed the holy women hoping in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands;

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayers. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil.

But if you also suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. And do not fear their fear, nor be troubled,

to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared (in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water);

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.

Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator.

I wrote to you through a few words, by Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which you stand.

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and our Savior Jesus Christ,

Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue,

through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

And many will follow their pernicious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be evil spoken of.

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

For that righteous one living among them, in seeing and hearing, his righteous soul was tormented from day to day with their unlawful deeds.

But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,

being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence as pleasure in the daytime, and reveling in spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits,

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.

First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts

For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,

through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction).

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no offense in him.

In this the love of God was revealed in us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. He who fears has not been perfected in love.

This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by the water and blood. And the Spirit is He who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

For there are three that bear witness {\I in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.

And there are three that bear witness on the earth:} the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are into the one.

If anyone sees his brother sin a sin not to death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for those that do not sin to death. There is a sin to death, I do not say that he shall pray for it.

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not to death.

And those angels not having kept their first place, but having deserted their dwelling-place, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of a great Day;

wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames; wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

to do judgment against all, and to rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they ungodly did, and concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke against Him.

These are murmurers, complainers, leading lives according to their lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of gain.

because they told you that at the last time there will be mockers according to their lusts, leading ungodly lives.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.