And no creature is hidden in his presence: but all things are naked and have been laid open to the eyes of him to whom the word is unto us.

Concerning whom there is much word to us, and difficult to speak, since you are dull of hearing.

For indeed you, who ought to be teachers so far as time is concerned, have need that some one again teach you what are the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God; and you have need of milk, not solid food.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things concerning you, and things appertaining to salvation, if indeed we do thus speak.

For finding fault with them, he says, Behold the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will perfect upon the house of Israel and upon the house of Judah, a new covenant:

which is a figure unto the present time, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered, not being able to make the worshiper perfect, as to his conscience;

And according to the law, almost all things are purified by blood; and without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Saying above, that Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin thou didst not will, neither wast well pleased with; whatsoever are offered according to law;

And every high priest indeed stands daily ministering, and frequently offering the same sacrifices, which are never able to take away sins:

But we are not of the drawing back unto perdition; but of faith unto the salvation of the soul.

By faith we understand that the worlds were created by the word of God, and that which was seen was not made from things which are manifest.

Therefore indeed they were born of one, and those things of one having died, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sands which are by the sea, which are innumerable.

These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For those speaking such things declare that they are seeking after a country of their own.

And if you are without chastisement, of which all have been partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is shed by the high priest in the sanctuary for sin, are utterly burnt up outside of the camp.

for we have here no continuing city, but we are seeking unto one which is to come.

Obey your leaders, and be submissive: for they are watching for your souls, as they shall give an account that they may do this with joy and not with grief, for this is unprofitable to you.

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, wishing in all things to deport ourselves in harmony with the beauty of holiness.

James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.

are you not condemned among yourselves, and have you not become the judges of evil reasonings?

behold also the ships, being so great, and driven by fierce winds, are managed by the smallest rudder, whithersoever the will of the steersman prefers;

For where there are envy and strife, there are contention and every evil work.

But the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who are making peace.

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

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:

Do not calumniate one another, brethren: the one speaking against his brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you, the one judging your neighbor.

Come now, ye who are saying, To-day or to-morrow we will go into that city, and abide there a year, and trade and accumulate:

whosoever do not know that which belongs to the morrow: for what is your life? For you are a vapor, appearing for a moment, and then vanishing away;

But you are now boasting in your arrogances: all such boasting is wicked.

Come now, ye rich, weep mourning over your calamities which are coming on you.

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

your gold and your silver are cankered; and their rust shall be for a witness against you, and eat your flesh like fire. You laid up treasures in the last days.

who are preserved by the power of God through faith unto the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

to whom it was revealed, because they were ministering not these things for themselves, but for you, which are now proclaimed unto you by those who preach to you the gospel with the Holy Ghost having been sent from heaven; into which things the angels desire to look down.

who through him are faithful toward God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are toward God.

and you, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, into a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, acceptable unto God through Jesus Christ.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light:

who at one time were no people, but now you are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, lint just now having received mercy.

who himself has borne our sins in his own body on the wood, in order that we, being made free from sins, may live unto righteousness: by whose stripe you are healed.

because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry: but the face of the Lord is against those doing evil.

But if indeed you suffer for righteousness' sake, you are happy. Fear not their fear, neither be troubled;

having a good conscience, in order that, in whatsoever you are calumniated, those traducing your good deportment in Christ may be ashamed.

in which they are astonished you not running to the same excess of wrath, blaspheming;

If you suffer reproach in the name of Christ, happy are you, because the spirit of the glory and the spirit of God rest on you.

Therefore I, being a fellow-elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, also a communicant of the glory which is about to be revealed, exhort the elders who are among you:

Salute one another with a holy kiss. Peace be unto you all who are in Christ.

for he unto whom these things are not present is blind, not seeing afar off, having received the forgetfulness of his purgation from his old sins.

But these, like irrational animals having been born naturally for capture and destruction, blaspheming those things in which they are ignorant; in their own corruption they will indeed corrupt themselves;

These are fountains without water, and mists driven away by the storm, for which the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

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 if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.

looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements being scorched up are melted?

But, according to his promises, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, wherein righteousness dwells.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in the same concerning these things; in which there are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unestablished wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

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

but whosoever shall keep his word, truly the divine love of God has been made perfect in him. In this we know that we are in him.

I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven through his name.

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.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him:

The world and its lust are indeed passing away; but the one doing the will of God abides forever.

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.

Let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If that which you heard from the beginning may abide in you, you also are abiding in the Son, and in the Father.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

And in this we shall know that we are of the truth, and we shall assure our hearts before him;

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

They are of the world: on this account they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

We are of God: the one knowing God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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.

For this is the divine love of God, that we may keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy:

Because there are three who are bearing witness,

the Spirit and the water, and blood: and these three are one.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.

But we know that the Son of God has come and has given unto us intelligence, that we know the truth. And we are in the true one, in his Son Jesus Christ; he is the true God, and eternal life.

But these blaspheme so many things as they know not: and so many things as they understand naturally, like irrational animals, in these they are corrupted.

These are rocks in your love-feasts, feasting along with you without fear shepherdizing themselves, clouds without water, driven away by the winds; withered trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

These are querulous grumblers, going forth according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaking swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of gain.

These are they who are sidetracking [the people], intellectual, not having the Spirit.

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from the one who is, and who was, and who is coming; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

saying, Write what you are seeing in a book, and send it to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

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

and the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven golden candlesticks are the seven churches.

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:

I know your tribulations, and your poverty, but you are rich; and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

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.

I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is: and you are holding fast my name, and did not deny my faith, in the days when Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were either cold or hot.

Thus because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth.

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?

And around about the throne were twenty-four thrones: and on the thrones twenty-four elders are sitting, clothed in white garments; and upon their heads golden crowns.