For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:

The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.

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

I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.

Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.

And make a room ready for me; for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be given to you.

To which of the angels did God say at any time, You are my Son, this day I have given you being? or, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son?

They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?

What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

Saying, I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers, I will make a song of praise to you before the church.

And again he says, I will put my faith in him. And again, See, I am here, and the children which God has given to me.

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest.

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

Now we will do this, if God lets us.

For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.

Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.

(For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);

For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;

For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.

And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.

When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.

But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.

So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.

In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.

And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.

If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.

But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?

But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.

Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

Who will do you any damage if you keep your minds fixed on what is good?

But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.

For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?

And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.

And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:

Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:

I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.