You know this, that all those who are in Asia have turned away from me; all those, I say, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

The Lord grant to him, that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day. And in how many things he ministered to me in Ephesus, you know very well.

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.

Every one that serves as a soldier keeps himself free from the business of this life, that he may please him that has chosen him to be a soldier.

Remember that Jesus Christ, of the posterity of David, was raised from the dead, according to my gospel;

But the foundation of God stands firm, having this inscription: The Lord knows those who are his; and, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

If, therefore, any one will cleanse him self from these strifes about words, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, highly useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from these also turn away.

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.

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory from age to age. Amen.

to Titus, my true son, according to the common faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

and not give heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn away from the truth.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

grace be to you all, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But to the Son: Thy throne, God, is from age to age: a scepter of rectitude is the scepter of thy kingdom.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in apostatizing from the living God.

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.

For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day, thus: And God did rest on the seventh day from all his works;

For he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

For every high priest chosen from among men, is appointed for men, in things pertaining to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins:

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;

Therefore, omitting the elementary Christian teaching, let us go on to the perfection of Christian instruction, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

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.

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

but he who does not count his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

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.

And those priests, indeed, have been many, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office.

For such a high priest is suited to us, who is holy, harm less, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

and they shall not teach, every one his citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest;

how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works, in order that you may serve the living God?

let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having; our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water;

By faith we understand that the ages were set in order by the word of God, so that the things which are seen, have not come into being from things that appear.

And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came, they could have had an opportunity to return.

for he concluded that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; wherefore he received him even in like manner.

See that you reject not him that speaks: for if they es caped not who rejected that earthly man who gave the oracles, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that is from heaven,

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant,

perfect you in every good work, in order that you may do his will, working in you that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory from age to age. Amen.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

Let no one say, when he is tempted, My temptation is from God; for God can not be tempted by evils, and he himself tempts no man.

every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor slightest trace of turning.

Religion, pure and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

are you not partial in yourselves? and do you not judge from false principles?

Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter?

This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Submit yourselves, therefore, to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you;

Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back,

let him know that he who turns back a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, has, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, regenerated us for a living hope

to whom it was revealed, that, not for themselves, but for us, they ministered the things that are now preached to you by those who have made known to you the gospel, through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; into which things angels desire to look.

because you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers,

who through him do believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile:

let him turn from evil and do good: let him seek peace, and pursue it.

Since, then, Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, do you also arm yourselves with the same determination; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any man acts as a deacon, let him do this as from the strength which God supplies; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and strength from age to age. Amen.

Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind:

To. him be glory and dominion from age to age. Amen.

But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came to him from the magnificent glory a voice, such as this: This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight.

And this voice, which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the holy mount;

knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture came from private interpretation:

for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds:

having eyes that are full of the adulteress, and that can not cease from sin, deceiving unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, accursed children,

For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

and saying: Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Do you, therefore, beloved, since you know these things be forehand, beware, lest, being led away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

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

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

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

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

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

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, my little children, because you have known the Father.

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

They went out from us, but they were not of us: for, if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all things.

Let that, therefore, abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. If that abide in you which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

And the anointing which you have received from him abides in you; and you have no need that any one should teach you: but, as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and is no lie, even as it has taught you, abide in it.

He that works sin is of the devil, for the devil sins from the beginning: for this purpose was the son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Beloved, believe not every spirit; but prove the spirits, whether they are from God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God:

and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.

And this commandment we have from him: That he that loves God, must love his brother also.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we may know him that is true: and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

I rejoiced greatly because I found some of your children walking in the truth, as we received commandment from the Father.

And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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

for, on account of his name, they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

But I wish to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people from the land of Egypt, then destroyed those who believed not.

And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied with reference to these men, saying: Behold, the Lord comes with his holy myriads,