Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.

Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

Do not grumble, brothers, against each other, so that ye not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors.

Behold, we regard those who endured, blessed. Ye have heard of the fortitude of Job, and have seen the outcome of Lord, that he is very compassionate and merciful.

But above all things, my brothers, swear not. Neither by the heaven, nor the earth, nor any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and the no, no, so that ye may not fall into hypocrisy.

Confess ye the trespasses to each other, and pray for each other so that ye may be healed. A working supplication of a righteous man is very powerful.

let him know that he who converts a sinful man from his wandering way, will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.

so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

To whom it was revealed, that they were serving not themselves, but you, those things that were now reported to you by those who preached good-news to you in Holy Spirit, which was sent forth from heaven, into which things heavenly

Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,

begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God that lives and remains into the age.

but the word of Lord endures into the age. And this is the word, the good-news that was preached to you.

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is excellent.

To you therefore who believe is the preciousness, but for men who disobey, A stone that the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner,

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.

Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

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,

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but instead giving praise, knowing that ye were called for this, so that ye might inherit a blessing.

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.

Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,

who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

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.

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.

But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.

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

Because of which, the precious and greatest promises have been given to us, so that through these ye might become companions of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in lust.

Knowing that the putting off of my tent is imminent, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.

For we revealed to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, not men who followed in cunningly devised myths, but men who became eyewitnesses of the majesty of that man.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture comes to pass of a personal interpretation.

(for that righteous man dwelling among them day after day, in the sight and hearing of their lawless deeds, it anguished his righteous soul),

But that of the TRUE proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.

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

Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,

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,

But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

(and the life was made known, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father, and was made known to us),

what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that ye also may have fellowship with us. Even also our fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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

And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My little children, I write these things to you so that ye may not sin. And if any man does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--righteous Jesus Christ.

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 abide in him he also ought so to walk just as that man walked.

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment that ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that ye heard from the beginning.

Children, it is the last hour. And as ye heard that the antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have developed, from which we know that it is the last hour.

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.

Who is the liar if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

And this is the promise that he promised us: the eternal life.

And for you, the anointing that ye received from him abides in you, and ye have no need that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you about all things, and is TRUE and is no lie, and just as it taught you, ye will a

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.

If ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every man doing righteousness has been begotten of him.

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.

And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

And ye know that that man was made known so that he might take up our sins. And in him is no sin.

Little children, let no man lead you astray. He who is doing righteousness is righteous, just as that man is righteous.

He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love each other.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.

Every man hating his brother is a man-killer. And ye know that no man-killer has eternal life abiding in him.

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.

Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love each other, just as he gave command.

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,

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.

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.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in 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.

And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

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

For this is the love of God, that we may keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Because everything that has been begotten from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

And who is he who overcomes the world, if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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.

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Because this is the testimony of God that he has testified about his Son.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.

And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son.

I wrote these things to you, those who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us, whatever we may ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

If any man may see his brother sinning a sin not toward death, he will ask, and he will give life to him, to those not sinning toward death. There is sin toward death. I do not say that he should make request about that.

We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.