Coming to whom, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God chosen, precious,

It is therefore contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, chosen, precious. And he who believes in him will, no, not be shamed.

or to governors as being sent by him for vengeance of evil-doers and praise of well-doers.

Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,

Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel,

Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,

But even if ye should suffer because of righteousness, ye are blessed. But do not fear their terror nor be shaken,

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. And always be ready for a defense to every man who asks you a word about the hope in you, with mildness and fear.

Having a good conscience, so that, in what they speak against you as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed, those who revile your good behavior in Christ.

in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

For good-news was preached even to the dead for this, so that they might indeed be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.

But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.

If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

Beloved, ye should not be surprised at the fieriness in you, which occurs for a trial to you, like a strange thing happening to you.

But if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this regard.

Therefore also let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls as to a faithful Creator by well-doing.

I, a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory going be revealed, exhort the elders among you:

Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily,

Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.

Therefore be lowered under the mighty hand of God, so that he may lift you up in time,

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

Whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing the same sufferings are to be accomplished in the world by your brotherhood.

By Silvanus, the faithful brother to you, as I reckon, I wrote because of a few things, exhorting and testifying this to be the TRUE grace of God in which ye stand.

Salute each other by a kiss of love. Peace to you, to all those in Christ Jesus. Truly.

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Therefore, brothers, instead be diligent to make your calling and selection sure, for doing these things, ye would, no, not ever stumble.

For so the entrance will be furnished to you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

For no prophecy was ever brought by a will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being led by Holy Spirit.

But FALSE prophets also developed among the people, as FALSE teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

And many will follow their wantonness, because of whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed.

and he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, being reduced to ashes, having made an example of men who were going to be irreverent,

and he rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct of the lawless in their licentiousness

But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,

getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,

These men are waterless wells, and clouds driven by a fierce wind, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,

promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first.

I write to you now this second letter, beloved, in which I arouse your sincere mind by a reminder,

to remember the sayings that were earlier spoken by the holy prophets, and of the command of your apostles of the Lord and Savior.

For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,

by which the world then perished, having been overflowed with water.

But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men.

But the day of Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire.

Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties,

anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot?

Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

And we write these things to you, so that our joy may be made full.

And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this man the love of God is fully perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

He who claims to be in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.

They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but--so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is made known, we may have confidence, and not be shamed by him at his coming.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and will assure our hearts before him.

And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit that he gave us.

By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in flesh is of God,

By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him.

By this love has been fully perfected with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as that man is, we also are in this world.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And it is the Spirit that testifies, because the Spirit is truth.

because of the truth that abides in us, and will be with us into the age.

Grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Having many things, I did not want to write to you by paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak mouth to mouth, so that our joy may be filled.

Beloved, I pray for thee to prosper concerning all things, and to be healthy, just as thy soul prospers.

I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first of them, did not accept us.

Demetrius has been testified by all, and by the truth itself. But we also testify, and ye know that our testimony is true.

I had many things to write, but I did not want to write to thee by pen and ink.

But I hope to see thee straightaway, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.

Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

These are reefs in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly tending to themselves, waterless clouds carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, who died twice having being uprooted,

But ye, beloved, remember the sayings previously spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that they told you that there will be scoffers during the last time, going according to their own desires of irreverences.

And on some be ye merciful--being discerning.

And in fear save some, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment that was stained by the flesh.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his bondmen what must happen quickly. And he signified it, having sent by his agent to his bondman John

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood

I John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance in Christ Jesus, happened to be on the isle that is called Patmos because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I know thy works, and thy toil, and thy perseverance, and that thou cannot tolerate evil, and thou examined those who say themselves to be apostles, and are not, and found them false.

I know thy works and tribulation and poverty (but thou are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Fear none of the things that thou are going to suffer. Behold, the devil is indeed going to cast some of you into prison, so that ye may be tried, and ye will have tribulation ten days. Become thou faithful until death, and I will

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. He who overcomes will, no, not be hurt from the second death.

And he will tend them with a rod of iron (they will be shattered like ceramic vessels), as I also have received from my Father.

Remember therefore how thou have received and heard, and be on guard, and repent. If therefore thou will not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou will, no, not know what hour I will come upon thee.

He who overcomes, this man will be clothed in white garments, and I will, no, not erase his name out of the book of life. And I will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his agents.

Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but lie, behold, I will make them so that they will come and bow down before thy feet, and may know that I have loved thee.

I counsel thee to buy from me gold refined from fire, so that thou may become wealthy, and white garments, so that thou may clothe thyself, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be made known, and eye-salve, so that thou may anoin

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

And the four beings, one by one, each having six wings, are full of eyes around and inside. And they have no cessation day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord, the Almighty God, he was, and who is, and who is coming.

Thou are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy, to take the glory and the honor and the power, because thou created all things, and because by thy will they are, and were created.

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

And behold, a white horse, and he who sits on it having a bow. And a crown was given to him, and he went forth conquering, and so that he might conquer.

And a white robe was given to them each, and it was said to them that they should still rest a time, until also their fellow bondmen, and their brothers, and those going to be killed as they too, would be fulfilled.

And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree that casts its unripe figs being shaken by a great wind.

And the fourth agent sounded, and the third part of the sun was struck, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them would be darkened. And the day did not shine the third part of

And it was given them that they would not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.