and say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.

PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; be cause, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for you, also, have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, that they have suffered from the Jews,

For what thanks can we render to God for you, for the great joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

See that no one render evil for evil to any, but always pursue that which is good toward one another and toward all.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

so that we ourselves glory in you, among the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure;

which endurance, of yours is a proof of the righteous judgment of God, in order that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you suffer:

In order to which, we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of this calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power,

"to which he called you by our gospel, in order that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

And we have confidence in the Lord with respect to you, that you both do, and will continue to do, the things which we command you.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother that walks disorderly, and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token in every letter: so I write.

nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith;

which things some not having aimed at, have turned aside to idle disputation,

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been intrusted to me.

and the grace of our Lord was very abundant with faith, and love which is in Christ Jesus.

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust from them, as it respects faith have made shipwreck; of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander,

who gave himself a ransom for all, of which the testimony has been given in its proper times,

to give which testimony I have been appointed a preacher and an apostle; (I speak the truth, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faithfulness and in truth.

but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

who forbid to marry, and command to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe, and know the truth.

By recommending these things to the attention of the brethren, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished with the words of the faith, and of good teaching, which you have fully known.

For the exercise of the body is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come.

Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you according to prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

At the same time, also, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which are not proper.

Like wise, also, the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and those which are otherwise can not be concealed.

If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness,

he is mad with conceit, knowing nothing, but has a morbid fondness for questions and contentions about words, out of which come envy, strife, railing, evil suspicions,

But those who will be rich fail into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is the root of all evil; through the desire of which, some have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called, and for which you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

which, in his own times, he will show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

Timothy, keep that which is committed to your charge, avoiding those profane and empty babblings, and disputations about knowledge falsely so called;

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus,

for I remember the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwells in you also.

who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus be fore the times of the ages,

to which I have been appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles;

for which cause I also suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have intrusted to him till that day.

Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard from me, in faithfulness and in love which is in Christ Jesus.

That good thing which was intrusted to you, keep by the Holy Spirit that dwells in us.

and the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, these do you commit to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

in which I suffer evil, as an evil-doer, even to bonds: but the word of God is not bound.

Put them in mind of these things, charging them before the Lord that they dispute not about words to no profit, which disputes end in the overthrow of the hearers.

my persecutions, my sufferings which came upon me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; you well know what persecutions I endured: and yet out of them all, the Lord delivered me.

But do you continue in the things which you have learned and well understood, knowing from whom you learned them,

and that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise in order to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day; and not to me only, but to all those who love his appearing.

but the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, that through me that which is preached might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgement of the truth, which is according to godliness;

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can not lie, promised be fore the times of the ages,

but he has in his own times manifested his word by preaching, which was committed to me ac cording to the commandment of God our Savior;

whose mouths must be stopped: these subvert whole houses by teaching, for the sake of base gain, things which they ought not to teach.

For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared,

not by works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

which he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

hearing of your love and your faith, which you have in the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

Wherefore, though I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do that which is becoming,

having become so far superior to the angels, as the name which he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

For to which of the angels did he at any time say: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

But to which of the angels has he said at any time: Sit on my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool?

Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we let them glide away.

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? which at first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard him;

For not to angels has he subjected the world to come of which we speak.

For both he that sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all of one Father: for which reason, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, to bear testimony to those things which were to be spoken afterward;

For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.

And there is no creature which is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked, and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an ac count.

In the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard with respect to that which he feared,

although he was a Son, he yet learned obedience from the things which he suffered;

For the land which drinks up the rain that comes often upon it, and produces herbs suitable for those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God.

But that which produces thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near the curse, the end of which is to be burned.

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled to lay hold on the hope set before us;

which, hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in beyond the vail,

to whom also Abraham gave a tenth of all, being, first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then, also, King of Salem, which means King of peace,

For he of whom these things are said, belongs to another tribe, from which no one attended upon the altar.

For it is very clear that our Lord sprung from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

(for the law made no perfect expiation), and the introduction of a better hope, by which we draw near to God.

For the law makes men high priests, who have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, makes the Son, who is perfected forever.

a minister of the holy places, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore, it is necessary that this one also have something which he may offer.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established with reference to better promises.

not like the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

In saying, A new covenant, he has regarded the first as out of use. Now, that which is out of use, and has become old, is ready to disappear.

for a tabernacle was constructed, the first, in which were the candlestick, and the table, and the presence bread; and this tabernacle is called holy.

But after the second vail, the tabernacle which is called the holy of holies;

which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

and over the ark, the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we can not now speak particularly.

But into the second, the high priest alone went, once during the year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

which, as a symbol, remains to the present time, in which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that can not make perfect, as it respects the conscience, him that does the service;

since he relies only on meats and drinks and various immersions, ordinances in deed of the flesh, which were imposed till the time of reformation.

This is the blood of the covenant which God enjoins on you:

For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, make a perfect expiation for those who come to them:

After saying above, Thou didst neither desire, nor take pleasure in sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and offerings for sin, which are offered according to the law,

By which will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.