Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it;

only, whereunto we have already attained, to walk by the same rule.

Be ye my imitators, brethren, and mark those thus walking about as you have us an example.

Whatsoever things you have indeed learned and received and heard and seen in me, do the same: and the God of peace will be with you.

But I greatly rejoice in the Lord, because indeed you have at length revived to think about me; in whatsoever you indeed were thinking, nevertheless you lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak concerning deficiency: for I have learned to be content with those things amid which I am.

But I have all things, and I abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus those things from you, an odor of a sweet savor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the divine love which you have toward all the saints.

having come to you, as it is indeed in the whole world bearing fruit and increasing, as also among you, from the day on which you heard and have known the grace of God in truth;

as you have learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is the faithful minister of Christ your behalf,

in whom we have redemption, the remission of sins:

if you abide in the faith, having been grounded and firm, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, having been preached in all creation which is under heaven; whose minister I Paul became.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have in behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and so many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

having been rooted and grounded in him, and confirmed in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any one may have a quarrel against any one; as Christ also forgave you, so indeed do you likewise:

Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

and Jesus, called Justus, who being of the circumcision: these are my only fellow-laborers in the kingdom of God, who have been made a comfort to me.

For from you the word of the Lord echoed out, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone forth; so that we have no need to say any thing:

But Timothy, having already come to us from you, and proclaimed to us the good news of your faith and your divine love, and that you always have a good mention of us, longing to see us, as we do to see you;

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another with divine love;

in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing.

But concerning the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write to you;

Then therefore, brethren, stand, and hold fast the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or by our epistle:

And we have trusted in the Lord in your behalf, that you are doing, and will do whatsoever we command.

not because we have not the right, but in order that we may give ourselves an example to you, that you may imitate us.

from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking,

having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith;

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

in which I have been placed a herald and an apostle I speak the truth, I lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and in truth.

But it also behooves him indeed to have a beautiful testimony from the aliens, in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Submitting these things to the brethren, you will be a beautiful minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith, and the beautiful teaching which you have followed;

For unto this we toil and agonize, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith:

for already certain ones have turned away after Satan.

Convict those who sin before all, in order that the rest may also have fear.

But let those that have faithful masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather let them serve them, because they are the faithful and beloved who are partaking of the benefaction. Command these things and exhort them.

for because we have brought nothing into the world, we are not able to carry any thing out;

For the love of money is a root of all evils: which some seeking after have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses.

which some proclaiming have made shipwreck concerning the faith. Grace be with you.

I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a clean conscience, as I have incessant mention of you in my prayers, night and day

unto which I have been placed a herald, and an apostle, and teacher:

on account of which cause I indeed suffer these things: but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to stand guard over that which is committed unto me unto that day.

You know this, that all who are in Asia, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes have turned away from me.

On account of this I endure all things for the sake of the elect, in order that they may also have the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

and their word like gangrene will have eating. Of whom are Hymenaeus and Phyletus;

who have made shipwreck concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already come, and they overturn the faith of some.

Burt you have followed my teaching, leadership, purpose, faith, long suffering, divine love, patience,

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

When I shall send Artemas or Tychicus to you, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis: for I have determined to spend the winter there.

hearing about your divine love, and the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and all the saints;

For I had much joy and consolation over your divine love, because the affections of the saints have been refreshed by you, O brother.

him at one time unprofitable to you, but now profitable both to you and to me: whom I have sent back to you,

Whom I did wish to have with me, in order that he might minister unto me in your stead in the bonds of the gospel:

for on this account he suddenly departed from you for an hour, that you might have him back forever;

if then you have me a comrade, receive him as myself.

I Paul have written with my own hand, I will pay it: not that I may say to you that you even owe yourself to me.

Having confidence in your obedience I have written to you, knowing that you will do even more than those things which I say.

For to which one of the angels at any time did he say, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be unto him a Father, and he shall be unto me a Son?

Therefore it behooves us the more earnestly to give heed to the things which we have heard, lest at some time we may leak out.

Then since the children have inherited blood and flesh, he likewise also received the same, in order that through death he might set at nought him who has the power of death, that is, the devil;

Therefore I was provoked with this generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart: and they have not known my way,

for we have been made partakers of Christ, if indeed we may hold fast the beginning of confidence firm unto the end.

Then let us fear, lest at some time, the promise to enter into his rest having been left, some of you may appear to have come short.

For we truly have had the gospel preached unto us, as they did also: but the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith to those hearing.

For we who have believed, do enter into rest: as he has said, As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: the works truly having been from the foundations of the world.

And no creature is hidden in his presence: but all things are naked and have been laid open to the eyes of him to whom the word is unto us.

For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched with our infirmities; but one having been tempted as to all things like unto us, apart from sin.

Likewise Christ also did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but the one having spoken to him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee:

For indeed you, who ought to be teachers so far as time is concerned, have need that some one again teach you what are the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God; and you have need of milk, not solid food.

For it is impossible that those having been once enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,

which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is in the veil,

And those indeed of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood have a commandment to tithe the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though having come out from the loins of Abraham:

Then indeed if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, for unto it the people have been tithed, what need is there still that another priest shall rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

And indeed many have been made priests, because they were prohibited by death from continuing:

But in addition to the things which having been spoken this is the principal thing: We have such a high priest, who sat on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: whence it is necessary to have something even that which he may offer.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, a place would not have been sought for the second.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctifies unto the purification of the flesh;

since in that case would they not have ceased being offered, because the worshipers having once been purified would have had no more conscience of sins?

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For we sinning willingly after we have received the perfect knowledge of the truth, there is left no more sacrifice for sins,

For you suffered along with the prisoners, and received with joy the spoliation of your goods, knowing that you have a better and abiding possession.

For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an opportunity to return;

For you have not yet resisted unto blood, fighting against sin;

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art proven of him:

And if you are without chastisement, of which all have been partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

Indeed no chastisement for the present seems to be truly joyful, but sorrowful: but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who have been disciplined by it.

For you have not come to the mountain that can be touched, and that is burnt with fire, and unto blackness and darkness, and tempest,

but you have come to mount Zion, and to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the city of the living God, and to myriads of angels,

to the whole company, and to the church of the first-born, who have been written in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of justified people who have been made perfect,

Therefore receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and fear:

We have an altar, from which those ministering in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

for we have here no continuing city, but we are seeking unto one which is to come.

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wishing in all things to deport ourselves in harmony with the beauty of holiness.

But I exhort you, brethren, to receive the word of consolation: for I have indeed written unto you briefly.

But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

are you not condemned among yourselves, and have you not become the judges of evil reasonings?