and that I may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not hold the faith.

But the Lord is faithful; he will stablish you and guard you from the Evil One.

I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.

I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

to Timothy, my true son in the faith; Grace, mercy and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

My wish, then, is that in every place the men should offer prayer, lifting up holy hands, free from anger and disputation;

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

But exclude from the list the younger widows; for where they have become wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

Moreover, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and are not only idlers, but gossips also, and busybodies, repeating things they ought not.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

But you, O servant of God, flee from these things, and run after integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, gentleness.

which some professing have erred from the faith. Grace be with you.

To Timothy, my beloved child; Grace mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Hold fast the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

The teachings which you have heard from me, attested by many witnesses, deliver into the keeping of faithful men, who in their turn will be able to teach others also.

Always remember that Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, has been raised from the dead according to the gospel I proclaim.

Nevertheless God's firm foundation stands unshaken, bearing this inscription, THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS, and this also, LET EVERY ONE WHO NAMES THE NAME OF THE LORD RENOUNCE WICKEDNESS.

Flee from the passions of youth, but run after righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who out of a pure heart call upon the Lord.

For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power.

Turn away from all such. Some of them creep into private houses and lead captive silly women who, laden with sins,

But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

But do you hold fast what you have learned and have held to be true. You know those from whom you have learned it,

and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

They will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths.

Nevertheless the Lord Jesus stood by me, and strengthened my heart, that through me full proclamation of the gospel might be made, and the Gentiles might hear it; and I was rescued from the lion's jaws.

And the Lord will rescue me from every evil assault, and will preserve me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen!

To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

so as to make them sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

to my sister Apphia, to my fellow soldier Archippus, and to the church which meets at Philemon's house. From Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy.

Grace and peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Perhaps for this reason you were separated from him for an hour, in order that you might have him back forever,

For if the word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying.

but Christ as a Son in his own house; and we are that house, if we retain the cheerful courage and pride of our hope firm unto the end.

See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

For we are become comrades of the Christ, if we hold our first title deed firm until the very end.

For every high priest chosen from time to time from among men is appointed on behalf of men, in matters relating to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins.

So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,

For land that has drunk the showers that now and again fall upon it, and produced vegetation useful for those for whom it was tilled, receives a blessing from God;

It was this Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;

Now those of the sons of Levi who are appointed to the priesthood, are authorized by the Law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brothers, and that too, although these are descended from Abraham.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe of which Moses said nothing concerning the priesthood.

mightier because it was not promised apart from an oath.

For although those priests became such without an oath, He had an oath form God who said to him, The Lord hath sworn and will not change, Thou art a priest forever.

And they indeed have been made priests, many in number, because they have been prevented by death from continuing;

For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

And they shall not teach every man his fellow citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

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

and thus there sprang from one man, and him practically dead, a nation like the stars in the heavens in multitude, or grains of sand upon the seashore, innumerable.

These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

And if they had cherished the memory of that land from which they went out, they would have found an opportunity to return;

For he accounted God able even to raise from the dead, from whence, figuratively speaking, he did indeed receive him back again.

Woman received their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were broken on the wheel, not accepting the offered deliverance, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection.

since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape punishment when they refused to listen to their instructor on earth, much less shall we escape if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven;

Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.

We Christians have an altar from which those have no right to eat who minister in the Tabernacle.

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of an eternal covenant,

Salute all your leaders and the saints. The brothers from Italy send you greeting.

If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from the God who gives to all men freely and without upbraiding; and it will be given to him.

Such a man need not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.

and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Some one indeed may say, "You have faith, and I have deeds." "Then show me your faith," I answer, "apart from any deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds."

But do you want to be convinced, O foolish man, that faith apart from deeds is barren?

From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.

But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

So then ever be subject to God, Ever resist the devil and he will flee from you.

My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back,

let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

It was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were ministering the truths which have now been announced to you, by those who preached the gospel to you, through the help of the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven??ruths into which angels long to look.

For you well know that not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were you redeemed from the emptiness of your manner of life, received by tradition from your ancestors;

Through him you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are now in God.

Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even suffering unjustly.

In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives,

He who would love life and enjoy happy 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.

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.

For the man who lacks these virtues is blind, short-sighted, forgetful of his cleansing from his old sins.

For he did receive honor and glory from God the Father, when there was borne such a voice to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight;

In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.

Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

For they willingly ignore the fact that there were heaven, from of old, and an earth formed out of water and through water, by the word of God;

Do you therefore, beloved, because you know these things beforehand, be on your guard lest you be led astray by the error of the wicked, and so fall from your own stedfastness.

It is of what has existed from the beginning, of what we have listened to, of what we have seen with our own eyes, of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads, it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing.

This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.