Know then that they that are on the principle of faith, these are Abraham's sons;

So that they who are on the principle of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.

I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw you into confusion.

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

As many as desire to have a fair appearance in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted because of the cross of Christ.

For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;

(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you everything here.

for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm.

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.

But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.

But younger widows decline; for when they grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

being guilty, because they have cast off their first faith.

And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

Of some men the sins are manifest beforehand, going before to judgment, and some also they follow after.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort.

laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of what is really life.

For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,

But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.

and that they may awake up out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for his will.

For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,

But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.

For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;

and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.

that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,

not robbing their masters, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which is of our Saviour God in all things.

The word is faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.

and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful.

taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

They shall perish, but thou continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,

and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service on account of those who shall inherit salvation?

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)

For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

and in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, Thou art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;

not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking 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, saith the Lord.

Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.

And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.

For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.

And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as through dry land; of which the Egyptians having made trial were swallowed up.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined the word being addressed to them any more:

(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle;

Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for they watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. They from Italy salute you.

But ye have despised the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not they drag you before the tribunals?

And do not they blaspheme the excellent name which has been called upon you?

Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.

To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves but to you they ministered those things, which have now been announced to you by those who have declared to you the glad tidings by the Holy Spirit, sent from heaven, which angels desire to look into.

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; who stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed.

having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without the word by the conversation of the wives,

For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.

having a good conscience, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you;

For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.

And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.

and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,

having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;

For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.