You have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich domineer over you, and drag you into courts?

But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

For the one saying, Thou shalt not commit adultery also said, Thou shalt not murder; but if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

So indeed faith, if it may not have works, is dead, as to itself.

But one will say, You have faith, and I have works: Show me your faith apart from works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

With it we bless the Lord, even the Father; and with it we scold the people, who have been made after the image of God:

But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask:

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten:

Behold, the wages of the laborers having reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out: and the voices of the reapers have come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Behold, we pronounce them happy who have endured: you have heard the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, because the Lord is very merciful, and sympathetic.

Truly the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; if he may have committed sins, they shall be forgiven unto him.

knowing that you have been redeemed from your depraved character transmitted from your ancestors, not by corruptible things, silver or gold,

if you have tasted that the Lord is good.

For unto this you have been called: because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you may follow in his steps:

For you have wandered away like sheep; but you have now turned to the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

as Sarah submitted to Abraham, calling him Lord: whose children you have become, doing good, and not fearing any calamity.

not giving evil for evil, or railing for railing: but on the contrary blessing; because unto this you have been called, that you may inherit the blessing.

For the past time is sufficient to have wrought the will of the heathens, walking in impurities, in lusts, in wine-drinkings, in revelries, in intemperance, and in unlawful idolatries:

Through Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I consider, I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and witnessing that this same grace of God is true in which you may stand.

through which precious and greatest promises have been given unto us; that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world through lust.

And I will endeavor to have each one of you after my departure make mention of these things.

For not having followed cunningly devised fables, have we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been eyewitnesses of his majesty.

And we have the more certain word of prophecy; to which you do well giving heed, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day may dawn, and the morning-star may rise in your hearts:

leaving the straight way, they have wandered off, following in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of iniquity; and had the conviction of his own conscience:

For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;

For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment which has been delivered unto them.

to remember the words which have been spoken hitherto by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles:

but now the heavens and the earth have been kept according to the same word, being reserved for fire in the day of judgment and the destruction of the ungodly people.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have beheld, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of the life;

and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and we testify, and we proclaim to you the life which is eternal, which was with the Father, and has been made manifest unto us;

that which we have seen and heard we also proclaim to you, in order that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And the same message which we have heard from him, we also proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness.

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

but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we may 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, in order that you may not sin. And if any one may sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

And in this we know that we have known him, if we are keeping his commandments.

The one saying, I have known him, and keeping not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but the old one which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have conquered the wicked one. I have written unto you, little children, because you have known the Father.

I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, from which we know that it is the last hour.

They came out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us: but in order that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us.

You have an unction from the Holy One, and you all know.

I have not written unto you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

I have written these things unto you concerning those deceiving you.

And the unction which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one may teach you: but as his unction teaches you concerning all things, and it is true, and it is no lie, and as he has taught you, abide in him.

And now, little children, abide in him; in order that, if he may appear, we may have boldness, and not shrink with embarrassment from him in his presence.

We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him?

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.

You are of God, little children, and you have conquered them; because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent forth his Son the Saviour of the world.

And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.

In this the divine love has been made perfect in us, that we may have boldness in the day of the judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

I have written these things unto you, in order that you may know that you have eternal life; to those who believe on the name of the Son of God.

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

And if we know that he hears us as to whatsoever we may ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked from him.

I rejoice exceedingly because I have found some of thy children walking about in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.

Because many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ is coming in the flesh; the same is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Take heed to yourselves, that you may not destroy those things which you have wrought, but may receive a full reward.

I have no greater joy than this, that I may hear of my children walking about in truth.

who have witnessed to thy divine love before the church: whom you will do well, having sent forth worthily of God.

For certain men have crept in, who long ago were written down to this judgment, ungodly, transforming the grace of God into impurity, even denying Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.

Woe unto them! because they have gone off in the way of Cain, and in the delusion of Balaam they have been seduced by reward, and they perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of them for all the works of their ungodliness which they have impiously done, and for all their hard speeches which they have spoken against him, being ungodly sinners.

But you, beloved, remember the words which have hitherto been spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Blessed is the one reading, and those hearing the word of the prophecy, and keeping the things which have been written in it: for the time is at hand.

the living one, and I was dead; and, behold, I am alive unto the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which are about to take place after these;

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and that you are not able to bear the wicked; and you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them to be liars:

and you have patience and have borne with them for my name's sake, and have not fainted.

But I have something against you, because you have left your first love.

Remember therefore whence you have fallen, and repent, and do your first works; lest I come to you, and shall move your candlestick out of its place, if you do not repent.

But you have this, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Fear not those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those holding the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

So you also have those in a similar manner holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who says herself to be a prophet, and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication, and to cat things sacrificed to idols.

But I say to you, the rest who are among the Thyatireans, so many as have not this teaching, whosoever have not known the depth of Satan, as they say; I cast upon you no other burden.

Moreover hold fast that which you have, until I shall come.

and he will shepherdize them with an iron rod: as the potter's vessels are broken to pieces; as I have received of my Father:

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; The one having the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars, says these things; I know your works, that you have a name that you are living, and are dead.

Be you watchful, and strengthen the remaining things, which are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.

But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: because they are worthy.

I know your works; behold, I have given before you an open door, which no one is able to shut: and you have a little power, and you have kept my word, and not denied my name.

Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are lying; behold, I will make them that they shall come and worship before thy feet, and may know that I have loved thee with divine love.

Because you have kept the word of my patience, and I will keep you from the hour of temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

I am coming quickly: hold fast that which you have, that no one may take your crown.

Because you are saying, That I am rich, and have increased in riches, and have need as to nothing, and do you not know that you are miserable, and pitiful, and poor, and blind, and naked?

The one conquering, I will give unto him to sit with me on my throne, as I indeed have conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

And I said unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me; These are those coming up out of great tribulation, who have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

And locusts came out of the smoke into the earth: and power was given unto them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was said to them that they shall not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree; only the men who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads.