And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you.

For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.

For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.

And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you.

Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.

For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.

For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all.

Quench not the Spirit.

Set not prophecies at nought.

In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:

For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.

Remember ye not, that, yet being with you, I spake these to you

And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved.

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.

And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.

For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;

Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you:

Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.

For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.

And ye, brethren, lose not courage doing good.

And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.

And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother.

As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine,

Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,

Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief.

Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

And likewise the women in well-arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing;

And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, was in the transgression.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser.

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.

Neglect not the power which in thee, which was given thee by the gift of prophecy, with the putting on of hands of the council of elders.

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren;

And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day.

And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.

Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.

For the writing says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox grinding. And, The laborer worthy of his hire.

Against an elder receive not an accusation from without, except from two or three witnesses.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed.

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;

To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;

I have grace to God, whom I serve from the forefathers in pure consciousness, as I have continual remembrance concerning thee in my prayers night and day;

For God gave not to us the spirit of timidity; but of power, and love, and of soundness of mind.

Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God;

Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,

By which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able to watch my deposits to that day.

May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for many times he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my perplexity:

And also if any contend for a prize, he is not crowned, except he contend for a prize lawfully.

In which I suffer ill treatment, to bonds, as an evil doer; but the word of God has not been bound.

If we believe not, he remains faithful: he cannot deny himself.

Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

And in a great house there is not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen; and some truly for honour, and some for dishonour.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,

And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these have withstood the truth: men corrupted in mind, not tried concerning the faith.

For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;

As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

In my first defence none was present with me, but all forsook me; (may it not be reckoned to them.)

In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times;

If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

Not holding to Jewish fictions, and commands of men, having turned away from the truth.

They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;

Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.

The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.

Servants to be subordinate to their own masters, to be pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things.

Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;

And let ours also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

But without thy judgment I would do nothing; that good might not be as according to necessity, but according to free will.

I Paul wrote with my hand, I will pay back: that I say not to thee, for thou owest thyself to me also in addition.

And as a cloak shalt thou turn them round, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all spirits qualified for service, sent forth for service for them about to inherit salvation?

For not to the angels has he subjected the habitable globe about to be, of which we speak.

All things didst thou place under his feet. For in placing all things under him, thou didst leave nothing not subjected to him. And now we see not yet all things placed under him.

For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

For certainly he lays not hold of angels; but of the seed of Abraham he lays hold.

Harden not your hearts, as in the exasperation, in the day of trial in the desert:

Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways.

In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation.

For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses.

And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert?

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

And we see they could not come in through unbelief.

For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.

Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:

Again he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after such time; as it is said, To day if ye would hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For if Jesus had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken of another day after these things.