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

to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited hair and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,

but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;

and Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been deceived, was in transgression.

not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)

not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.

But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Be not negligent of the gift that is in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood.

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,

Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of his house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.

Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,

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.

If any believing man or woman have widows, let them impart relief to them, and let not the assembly be charged, that it may impart relief to those that are widows indeed.

for the scripture says, Thou shalt not muzzle an ox that treadeth out corn, and, The workman is worthy of his hire.

Against an elder receive not an accusation unless where there are two or three witnesses.

Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed.

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.

If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to piety,

Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.

Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God;

who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time,

For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain;

And if also any one contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.

in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.

Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.

Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.

But in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wooden and earthen; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

And a bondman of the Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing;

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;

Henceforth the crown of righteousness is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will render to me in that day; but not only to me, but also to all who love his appearing.

At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them.

if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain.

not turning their minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:

bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;

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

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.

not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

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

but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:

not any longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved brother, specially to me, and how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?

I Paul have written it with mine own hand; I will repay it: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also to me.

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?

For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;

thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him,

For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

For he does not indeed take hold of angels by the hand, but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

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

in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;

(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?

And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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.

Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on account of not hearkening to the word,

again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day.

Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word.

And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things are naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do.

For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.

Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a high priest; but he who had said to him, Thou art my Son, I have to-day begotten thee.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.

And by how much it was not without the swearing of an oath;

(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;)

who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all in having offered up himself.

minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, and not man.

If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law,

For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.

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.

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.

and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail.

but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:

the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing;

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

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?

Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);