of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace.

But faith is a confidence in respect to things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

We know by faith that the worlds were made by the word of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent.

By faith Noah having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, fearing built the ark for the salvation of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness by faith.

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.

By faith Abraham when tried offered Isaac, and he that received the promises offered his only son,

By faith Moses when he became a man refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time,

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him,

for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.

If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?

and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,??22 but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly,

Know that brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you.

For the sun rose hot, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also shall the rich man perish in his ways.

then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being finished brings forth death.

but if you respect persons, you commit sin, convicted by the law as transgressors.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.

He therefore that knows how to do good and does it not, to him it is sin.

whom not having seen you love, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious,

for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

For what glory is it if when you sin and are punished you bear it patiently? But if you do well and suffer and bear it patiently, [this deserves thanks], for it is acceptable to God.

who committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth,

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

The co-elect [church] at Babylon salutes you, and Mark my son.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when this voice was brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children,

having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.

THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our hands felt, concerning the Word of life,??2 and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,??3 that which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,

Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and the Son.

No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that confesses the Son has the Father also.

Let that which you heard from the beginning continue in you. If that which you heard from the beginning continues in you, you also shall continue in the Son and in the Father.

Every one that commits sin commits also wickedness, and sin is wickedness.

And we know that he was manifested to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

No one that continues in him sins; no one that sins has seen him, or known him.

he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

And this is his commandment; that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave commandment.

The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, the Saviour of the world.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God continues in him and he in God.

If any one says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.

Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning his Son.

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son has not the life.

These things have I written to you, that you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.

If any one sees his brother commit a sin, not to death, he shall ask, and he will give him life, for those who sin not to death. There is a sin to death; I say not that you should pray for it.

All wickedness is sin, and there is sin not to death.

We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin, but he that has been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding that we may know the true One; and we are in the true One, in his Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God, and eternal life.

Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, shall be with you in truth and love.

Every one who goes beyond, and continues not in the doctrine of Christ, is without God. He that continues in the doctrine has both the Son and the Father.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but good. He that does good is of God; he that does evil has not seen God.

but hope soon to see you, and we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends salute you; salute the friends by name.

and in the midst of the candlesticks one like the Son of man, clothed with a robe extending down to his feet, girded about the breasts with a golden girdle;

and his head and hairs were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes like a flame of fire,

and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun in his strength.

But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.

And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things says the Son of God, he that has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brass,

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and all the moon became as blood,

And they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun strike them nor any heat,

And the fourth angel sounded; and a third part of the sun was smitten, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars, and a third part of them were darkened, and the day did not appear a third part of it, nor the night.

And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there arose up a smoke from the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and an iris was about his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire,

And a great symbol appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars,

and his tail drew a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them on the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear [a child], that when she had borne he might devour her son.

AND I saw, and behold, the Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of his father written on their foreheads.

And I saw, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like the Son of man, having on his head a crown of gold and in his hand a sharp sickle.

And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given it to scorch men with fire.

And I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come, assemble yourselves to the great supper of God,

He that conquers shall inherit these things, and I will be to him a God and he shall be to me a son.

And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to give a light to it; for the glory of God lights it, and its light the Lamb.