for we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise still being left of entering into His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

For, indeed, we have had the Gospel proclaimed to us, even as also they; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mingled with faith on the part of those who heard.

For, had Joshua given them rest, He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

for we have not a High Priest, unable to sympathize with our infirmities, but One Who hath been tempted in all points like as we, apart from sin.

Thus Christ also glorified not Himself to become a high priest, but He Who spake to Him, "Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee";

Concerning Whom we have much to say and difficult to explain, since ye have become dull of hearing.

For even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food;

but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.

But, beloved, we have become persuaded better things concerning you, and things accompanying salvation, even though we thus speak;

that, through two immutable facts, in which it is impossible that God should lie, we may have strong encouragement, who fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;

which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and firm, and entering into the place within the veil;

And those, indeed, from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, (though having come out of the loins of Abraham);

If, therefore, there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there, that another Priest should arise according to the rank of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned according to the rank of Aaron?

(for they, indeed, have been made priests without an oath; but He with an oath through Him Who said to Him, "The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest forever");

And they, indeed, have been made priests many in number, because by death they are hindered from continuing;

for the law constitutes men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the oath, which was after the law, constitutes the Son perfected forever.

Now as a main point to the things being spoken, we have such a High Priest, Who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; wherefore, it is necessary that This One also have something which He may offer.

Verily, therefore, the first covenant used to have ordinances of divine service, and the sanctuary pertaining to the world.

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

And, for this cause, He is the Mediator of a new covenant, that, death having taken place for redemption from the transgressions against the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, having been cleansed once for all, would have had no more conscience of sins.

then hath He said, "Lo, I have come to do Thy will." He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second:

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

for ye both sympathized with those in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions; knowing that ye yourselves have a better possession and an abiding one.

For ye have need of patience, that, after having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

By faith we perceive that the ages have been constituted by the word of God, so that what is seen has not arisen out of things that appear.

And, if, indeed, they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

choosing rather to suffer evil with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a season;

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, reasons with you as with sons: "My son, do not lightly regard the chastening of the Lord; neither faint, when reproved by Him;

But, if ye are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

All chastening, indeed, for the present seems not to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained thereby.

For ye have not come to a mount that is touched and burning with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

But ye have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

But the expression, "Yet once more," signifies the removal of the things shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things that are not shaken may remain.

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;

We have an altar, from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are seeking for the one about to come.

Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to deport ourselves honestly in all things.

And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

For He Who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not kill." Now, if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

But some one will say, "You have faith, and I have works": show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Therewith we bless the Lord and Father; and therewith we curse men, who have been made after the likeness of God.

But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

and the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and, if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.

who once were not a people, but are now God's people; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;

And the God of all grace, Who called you into His everlasting glory in Christ, after ye have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, settle you.

through which have been given to us very great and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world in lust:

Wherefore, I shall be always ready to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and have become confirmed in the present truth.

And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which ye do well to take heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the Morning Star arise in your hearts;

For it were better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

but the present heavens and the earth, by the same word, have been stored up for fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we gazed upon, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life

(and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you The Eternal Life; Who, indeed, was with the Father, and was manifested to us);

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you also, that ye also may have fellow-ship with us; and our fellowship also is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

And this is the message which we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and are walking in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;

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

If we say, "We have no sin," we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say, "We have not sinned," we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And, if any one sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous.

And in this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.

He who says, "I have known Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake.

I write to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have conquered the evil one. I wrote to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have conquered the evil one.

Little children, it is the last hour; and, as ye heard that Anti-Christ is coming, even now many anti-christs have arisen; whence we know that it is the last hour.

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that they are not all of us.

And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye all know Him.

And the Anointing which ye received from Him abideth in you, and ye have no need that anyone teach you; but as His Anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as He taught you, ye abide in Him.

And now, little children, abide in Him; that, if He shall be manifested, we may have confidence, and not be put away from Him with shame at His coming.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not abides in death.

In this we have known the love, that He laid down His soul in our behalf; and we ought to lay down our souls in behalf of the brethren.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God;

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

and every spirit that confesses not Jesus is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Anti-Christ, of which ye have heard that it is coming, and now it is in the world already.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He Who is in you, than he that is in the world.

And we have beheld, and testify, that the Father hath sent the Son, as Savior of the world.

And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him.

In this has love been made perfect with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, even so are we in this world.

And this commandment we have from Him, that he who loves God loves his brother also.

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

And this is the confidence which we have toward Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us;

and, if we know that He heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we asked of Him.

I rejoiced exceedingly, because I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

I wrote to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have preeminence among them, receives us not.

But do ye, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

And on some have compassion, while contending with you,

and the Living One; and I was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

and you have patience, and did bear for My name's sake, and have not grown weary.

But I have it against you, that you left your first love.

Remember, therefore whence you have fallen, and repent, and do your first works; or else I am coming to you, and will remove your candlestick out of its place, if you do not repent.