Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;

that we should be to the praise of his glory who have pre-trusted in the Christ:

being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings,

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also do ye.

that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

For this reason I also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to nothing.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that ye should be written to,

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief:

a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;

And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.

And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.

But the Lord stood with me, and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all those of the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

that, having been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

in such sort that thy participation in the faith should become operative in the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in us towards Christ Jesus.

For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

but we see Jesus, who was made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty; with whom, if he should come soon, I will see you.

According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.

Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.

instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;

who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God.

For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer as well-doers than as evildoers;

but I will use diligence, that after my departure ye should have also, at any time, in your power to call to mind these things.

and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life;

The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness:

and yourselves, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life, for those that do not sin unto death. There is a sin to death: I do not say of that that he should make a request.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.

And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.

that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.

And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication.

And another, a red horse, went forth; and to him that sat upon it, to him it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another; and there was given to him a great sword.

And there was given to them, to each one a white robe; and it was said to them that they should rest yet a little while, until both their fellow-bondmen and their brethren, who were about to be killed as they, should be fulfilled.

And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them should be darkened, and that the day should not appear for the third part of it, and the night the same.

and it was said to them, that they should not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but the men who have not the seal of God on their foreheads:

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

And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

and swore by him that lives to the ages of ages, who created the heaven and the things that are in it, and the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be no longer delay;

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has there a place prepared of God, that they should nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.

And it works great signs, that it should cause even fire to come down from heaven to the earth before men.

And it was given to it to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should also speak, and should cause that as many as should not do homage to the image of the beast should be killed.

And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead;

and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name.

And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and pure; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints.

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should not any more deceive the nations until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be loosed for a little time.

And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should shine for it; for the glory of God has enlightened it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb.

Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city.