in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

For that reason, I endure everything for the sake of those who have been chosen so that they, too, may receive the salvation that is in the Messiah Jesus, along with eternal glory.

who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God has been standing, having this seal, "The Lord knew those who are His:" and "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."

if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

and they might recover their senses and escape from the devil's trap in which they have been caught by him to do his will.

But thou hast been thoroughly acquainted with my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance,

But you, on your part, must continue to abide by what you have learned and been led to rely upon, because you know from whom you learned it

and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness].

so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

For I am already poured out, and the time of my deliverance has been fixed.

I have fought the good battle; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith [i.e., I have been true to my commitment].

for he has been bitterly hostile to anything I have said.

serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago ??3 he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: ??4 to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

but at the proper time made known as His message through the message that I preach with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Saviour;

I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you??6 men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience.

They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

By one of their own number, by a prophet of their own, it has been said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."

Everything is pure [i.e., ceremonially acceptable] to the person who is pure [i.e., who has been cleansed by the blood of Christ], but to those who are [spiritually] corrupt, and do not believe [in Christ], nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted. [Note: This statement was intended to remove the physical restrictions imposed by the law of Moses].

For the loving-kindness of God has been revealed, bringing Salvation for all;

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,

So that, having been made righteous by the grace of that man, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

having known that he hath been subverted who is such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.

Yes, I have felt great joy and encouragement over your love, because the hearts of God's people have been refreshed by you, my brother.

who in time past hath been an unprofitable servant to thee, but now very profitable to thee and to me:

I would have been glad to keep him with me, so that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;

but I did not want to do anything without first getting your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

for perhaps for this reason he has been separated from thee for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for ever;

having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.

Are not all these ministering spirits, having been sent forth unto ministration for the sake of those who are about to inherit salvation?

For this cause, it behoveth us, with unwonted firmness, to be holding fast unto the things that have been heard, lest, at any time, we drift away.

For if the word having been spoken by angels was stedfast, and every disobedience and transgression received a just recompense of reward;

how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

But one has [solemnly] testified somewhere [in Scripture], saying,

“What is man, that You are mindful of him,
Or the son of man, that You graciously care for him?

You placed everything under his feet [Note: This is true of both mankind (Gen. 1:26-28) and of Jesus (Eph. 1:22-23)]. For in subjecting everything to him, God did not leave anything that is not subject to him. But at the present time we do not see what all has been subjected to him.

But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the heavenly agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man.

and set at liberty those who all their lifetime had been subject to slavery because of their dread of death.

For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help those being tempted.

Therefore, holy brothers [and sisters], who have been called [by God] to share in heaven, think about Jesus, the Apostle and Head Priest, whom we have confessed [as Savior].

has been to the God who appointed him, just as Moses was, in all the house of God.

Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.

For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end;

As it has been said [Psa. 95:7], "Today, if you hear His [i.e., God's] voice, do not have a stubborn heart like you did when you provoked [God]."

And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient?

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 also are having good-news preached, just as also those men, but the word of hearing did not benefit those men, not having been mixed together with faith in those who heard.

For we who have believed are being admitted to that rest, just as He has said: "As in my anger I took oath, they shall not be admitted to my rest," although God's works had been completed at the creation of the world.

even though his actions had been finished since the creation of the world. Somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: "On the seventh day God rested from all his actions,"

He again fixes a definite day, saying long afterward through David, as has been quoted: "If you but hear His voice, you must not harden your hearts."

For if Joshua had really given them rest, He would not afterward have been speaking of another day.

For He who has been admitted to His rest, has rested from His works as God did from His.

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 by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.

Nor does any one take that high office upon himself, till he has been called to do so by God, as Aaron was.

Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up, both supplications and entreaties unto him that was able to save him out of death, with mighty outcries and tears, and been hearkened to by reason of his devoutness,

And having been fully perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him,

having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing.

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

such solid nourishment is only fit for such as are arriv'd at their full growth and strength, whose senses have been exercis'd in distinguishing what is good, and what is prejudicial.

of teaching about washings (ritual purifications), the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. [These are all important matters in which you should have been proficient long ago.]

For it is impossible for those who have once for all been enlightened and have experienced the gift from heaven, who have been made sharers of the Holy Spirit

And producing thorns and briers is rejected, after having been tried, and near cursing; whose end for destruction.

And we have been persuaded of you, dearly beloved, of better things, and connected with salvation, if we also thus speak.

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

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

where Jesus is gone to usher us in, having been made an high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

Now see how great this man must have been that even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of his spoils.

and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.

for when Melchizedek met him, he was still in Abraham's body [i.e., Levi had not yet been born as a descendant of Abraham].

Now if perfection had been reached through the Levitical priesthood -- for on it as a basis even the law was enacted for the people-- what further need would there have been of appointing a different priest, with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of designating one with the rank of Aaron?

For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has ever been attached to the service of the altar.

who has become a priest, not on the basis of a physical and legal requirement in the Law [concerning his ancestry as a descendant of Levi], but on the basis of the power of an indestructible and endless life.

For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Indeed, because it was weak and ineffective, the former commandment has been annulled,

For, they, indeed, apart from oath-taking, have been made priests, but, he, with an oath-taking, through him that was saying unto him - The Lord sware, and will not regret, - Thou, art a priest, age-abidingly

insomuch that Jesus has also been made the mediator of a better covenant.

And the Levitical priests, on the one hand, have become numerous, because they have been prevented by death from continuing in office,

For such a high priest was indeed appropriate unto us, holy, free from sin, undefiled, having been separated from the sinners, and being higher than the heavens;

For the law appoints men high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath after the law, a Son who has been fully perfected into the age.

The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

Who, indeed, are rendering divine service, with a glimpse and shadow, of the heavenly things; even as Moses hath received intimation, when about to complete the tent, - For see! saith he - Thou shalt make all things according to the model which hath been pointed out to thee in the mount.

But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;

the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;

But Christ appeared as a High Priest of the blessings that are soon to come by means of the greater and more perfect Tent of worship, a tent which has not been built with hands--that is to say does not belong to this material creation--

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.

Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.