And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts;

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly will be manifest to all men, as theirs also was.

For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts will they multiply to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and will be turned to fables.

For there are many disorderly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

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

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

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

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

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

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

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

And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

They shall perish; but thou remainest: and they all shall become old as doth a garment;

And as a vesture wilt thou fold 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 forth to minister for them who shall inherit salvation?

For both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

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

For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached entered not because of unbelief:

If they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

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

And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith 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:

And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

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 comers to them perfect.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once cleansed, would have had no more conscience of sins.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came, they might have had opportunity to return.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians essaying to do were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encompassed seven days.

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

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

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

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard, entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

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

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

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

Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

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

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

Behold also the ships, which though they are so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm, withersoever the governor willeth.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they will be forgiven him.

To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they ministered the things which are now reported to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them who stumble at the word, being disobedient: to which also they were appointed.

Having your manner of life honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the deportment of the wives;

While they behold your chaste manner of life coupled with fear.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good deportment in Christ.

In which they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

And through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption:

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day-time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: they have a heart exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that had quite escaped from them who live in error.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he brought into bondage.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

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

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

They are of the world: therefore they speak from the world, and the world heareth them.

The elder to the elect lady, and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

Because for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; withered autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked out by the roots;

To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have impiously committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

That they told you there would be mockers in the last time, who would walk after their own ungodly lusts.

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also who pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

And his feet like fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear them who are evil; and thou hast tried them who say they are apostles, and are not; and hast found them liars: