For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widow have children or grand children, let these learn first to shew piety at home,

Having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them a service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

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

O Timotheus, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding prophane, empty babblings, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called: Which some professing have erred from the faith.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that I have remembrance of thee in my prayers without ceasing night and day,

For which cause also I suffer these things: yet I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have trusted, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him, until that day.

Who have erred from the faith, saying, The resurrection is already past, and overthrow the faith of some.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge will render me in that day, and not to me only, but to all them likewise that have loved his appearing.

Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus I have left at Miletus sick.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, to the end that they who have believed in God, be careful to excel in good works: these things are good and profitable to men.

When I shall send Artemas or Tychicus to thee, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have determined to winter there.

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus, Who was formerly unprofitable to thee,

but now profitable to thee and me, Whom I have sent again:

Whom I would have retained with me, to serve me in thy stead, in the bonds of the gospel.

And perhaps for this end was he separated for a season, that thou mightest have him for ever;

I Paul have written with my own hand; I will repay it; not to say unto thee, that thou owest also thyself to me besides.

Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.

Having confidence of thy obedience I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say.

For to which of the angels did he ever 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?

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their hearts, and they have not know my ways.

For we that have believed, do enter into the rest; as he said, I have sworn in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest, though the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For if Joshua had given them the rest, he would not have afterward spoken of another day.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

let us hold fast our profession, For we have not an high-priest who cannot sympathize with our infirmities, but who was in all points tempted like as we are: yet without sin.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant and the wandering, seeing he himself also is compassed with infirmity,

So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

Concerning whom we have many things to say, and hard to be explained, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which are the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

But strong meat belongeth to them of full age, to them who have their senses exercised by habit to discern both good and evil.

For it is impossible for those who were once inlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

And have fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

That by two unchangeable 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 of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil,

And verily they of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment (according to the law) to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brethren, tho' they come out of the loins of Abraham.

For the law maketh men high priests that have infirmity; but the word of the oath which was since the law, maketh the son, who is consecrated for evermore.

The sum of what hath been spoken is, We have such an high priest, who is set down at the right-hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

For every high priest is ordained to offer up gifts and sacrifices; whence it was necessary, that this also should have somewhat to offer.

For if the first had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

For then he must often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the consummation of the ages hath he been manifested, to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, having been once purged, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

For ye sympathized with my bonds, and received with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

And truly if they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to return.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And yet ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh to you as to sons, My son, despise not thou the chastning of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.

Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them: Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Forget not to entertain strangers, for hereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is good, that the heart be stablished with grace, not with meats, in which they that have walked have not been profited.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle.

For we have here no continuing city; but we seek one to come.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves; for they watch over your souls, as they that must give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with groans: for that is unprofitable for you.

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, desiring to behave ourselves well in all things.

I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written a letter to you in few words.

Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints.

But let patience have it's perfect work,

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring,

But ye have disgraced the poor.

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

What doth it profit, my brethren, tho' a man say he hath faith, and have not works?

But one will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

But if ye have bitter zeal and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.

Ye desire and have not, ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Your gold and silver is cankered, and the canker of them shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire: ye have laid up treasure in the last days.

Behold the hire of your labourers who have reaped your fields, which is kept back by you, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabbaoth.

Ye have lived delicately on earth, and been wanton; ye have cherished your hearts, as in a day of sacrifice.

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just: he doth not resist you.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering, affliction, and of patience.

Behold, we count them happy that have endured. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord: for the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

To whom it was revealed, that not for themselves, but for us they ministered the things which have been now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven: which things angels desire to look into.

If ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

For the time past of your life sufficeth to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when ye walked in lasciviousness, evil desires, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

And above all things, have fervent love to each other; for love will cover a multitude of sins.

Now the God of all grace, who hath called us by Christ Jesus to his eternal glory, after ye have suffered a while, himself shall perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

By Silvanus, a faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and adding my testimony, that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand,

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us, thro' the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

But I will endeavour, that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.

And we have the word of prophecy more confirmed, to which ye do well that ye take heed, as to a lamp that shone in a dark place, till the day should dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

Who have forsaken the right way and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Boser, who loved the reward of unrighteousness.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, thro the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein and overcome, their last state is worse then the first.

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

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 of the word of life:

For the life was manifested, and we have seen, and testify and declare to you the eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested to us:

That which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ:

And this is the message which we have heard of him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say 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 one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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

If we say, we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My beloved children, I write these things to you, that ye may not sin. But if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous, And he is the propitiation for our sins;