being condemned because they have rejected the first faith;

for some have already turned back after Satan.

And let those who have believing masters not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather serve, because they are believers and beloved, who partake of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

which some having professed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.

for which cause I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep my trust to that day.

who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

But you have followed my instruction,??ode of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,

and that from a child you have known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

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

The word is true, and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For these things are honorable and useful to men.

When I send you Artemas, or Tychicus, make haste to come to me at Nicopolis; for there I have determined to spend the winter.

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

that your participation of the faith may be made effectual by a knowledge of all the good which we have in Christ Jesus.

For I have great joy and comfort in your love, because the saints are refreshed by you, brother.

whom I have sent back. And do you receive him, that is, my soul,

for perhaps he has been separated from you for a time that you may have him back forever,

I, Paul, have written with my hand; I will pay; not to tell you that you owe yourself to me.

I have written to you, having confidence in your obedience, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?

how shall we escape who have neglected so great a salvation? which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was affirmed to us by those who heard,

Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

for we have been made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of the confidence firm to the end.

For we have also received the good news as they did; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being accompanied with faith in those who heard.

For if Joshua caused them to rest he would not have spoken of another day afterwards.

For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;

Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing.

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

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

which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and entering within the vail,

And the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to tithe the people according to the law, that is their brothers, although descended from Abraham;

BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens,

For every chief priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices, whence it was necessary that this man also should have something to offer.

For if he had been on earth he would not have been a priest, there being priests to offer, the gifts according to the law,

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

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

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

And if they had remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time,

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him,

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and blackness and darkness and a tempest

and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,??22 but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly,

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace through which we may serve God acceptably, with piety and fear;

Forget not hospitality; for by this some without knowing it have entertained angels.

Let your life be without avarice, and be contented with what you have; for he said, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you;

We have an altar of which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that which is to come.

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things wishing to live well.

And I beseech you, brothers, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have sent to you a letter in a few words.

But let patience have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

My brothers, have not the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with a respect of persons.

For he shall have judgment without mercy who shows not mercy; mercy rejoices over judgment.

But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by works.

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth.

You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask;

Your riches have decayed, and your garments are moth-eaten,

your gold and silver are destroyed with rust, and their rust will be a witness against you, and consume your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasures for the last days.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry, and the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

You have lived in luxury on the earth and in pleasure, you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you.

Do you also have long patience, confirm your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

You have the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, my brothers, as an example of patience and long-suffering.

Behold, we account them blessed who are patient. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, that he is very merciful and compassionate.

to whom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us those things which have now been declared to you by those who preached to you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which the angels desire to look.

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,

above all things have fervent love one for another, for love hides a multitude of sins.

And may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a little while, himself make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish you.

I have written to you in a few words by Silvanus [Silas], a faithful brother as I suppose, exhorting you, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

SIMEON Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

For thus shall you have an abundant entrance given you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these things, although you have known them, and have been established in the present truth.

And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,

having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,

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

But the present heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being kept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men.

THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our hands felt, concerning the Word of life,??2 and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,??3 that which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and observe 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 his Son cleanses us from all sin.

If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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

My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,

And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

He that says, I have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

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 evil one. I wrote to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

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

Little children, it is the last time; and as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many have become anti-christs; whence we know that it is the last time.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.

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

I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

I have written these things to you concerning those who deceive you.