incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their former obligation.

For some have already turned aside after Satan.

And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren: but rather let them serve them, because they who partake of the benefit of their service, are believers and beloved brethren. These things enforce in your teaching and exhortation.

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

Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called, and for which you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

by making a profession of this knowledge, some have erred as it respects the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, after the custom of my forefathers, that, without ceasing, I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day,

to which I have been appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles;

for which cause I also suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have intrusted to him till that day.

Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard from me, in faithfulness and in love which is in Christ Jesus.

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.

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.

Assuredly true is the saying: If indeed we have died with him, we shall also live with him;

who, as it respects the truth, have erred, saying that the resurrection has already taken place; and they overthrow the faith of some.

But you have fully known my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faithfulness, my long-suffering, my love, my patience,

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.

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

I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

This saying is true, and in respect to these things, I will that you affirm strongly, in order that those who have believed in God may be careful to practice good works: these are the things that are honorable and profitable for men.

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

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

For we have great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.

Wherefore, though I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do that which is becoming,

I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds,

Yes, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.

For to which of the angels did he at any time 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 we let them glide away.

Where fore, I was angry with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

For we have had the good news preached to us, even as they had: but the word preached did not profit them, for it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it.

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 if Joshua had given them rest, he would not, after this, have spoken of another day.

Seeing, then, that we have a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

For we have not a high priest that can not sympathize with our infirmities; but he was tempted in all things like ourselves, yet without sin.

being able to have compassion on the ignorant and erring, because he himself is beset with infirmity:

So, also, the Christ did not take upon himself the honor of becoming a high priest: but he gave him this honor, who said to him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee:

Of him we have many things to say, and difficult to be explained, if we do say them, since you are slow in understanding.

For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

But strong food belongs to those who are of mature age, who, by use, have their internal senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the coming age,

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:

that by two immutable 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 for the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in beyond the vail,

And those of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

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

For the law makes men high priests, who have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, makes the Son, who is perfected forever.

Now concerning the things that have been spoken, the principal point is this: We have such a high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore, it is necessary that this one also have something which he may offer.

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

for then, he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the ages, he has appeared in order to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

for then, would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, after being once cleansed, would no longer have a consciousness of sins.

For if we sin willfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no longer a sacrifice for sins;

For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and endured joyfully the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

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

But the just by faith shall live; and if he draw back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

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.

Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,

You have not yet resisted to blood, in your contest with sin;

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him.

So, then, 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 our spirits, and live?

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

But you have come to Mount Zion, and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels;

And this prophecy, Yet once more, signifies the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things which can not be shaken may remain.

Wherefore, as we receive a kingdom that can not be shaken, let us have gratitude, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear:

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for, by this means, some have unconsciously entertained angels.

Let there be no money-loving disposition; be content with such things as you have. For he has said: I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you.

Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: attentively consider the result of their conduct, and imitate their faith.

Be not carried away by various and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be strengthened with grace, not with meats, which have not profited those who were occupied with them.

We have a sacrifice, of which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

For here we have no abiding city, but we seek one to come.

Pray for us: for we trust that we have a good conscience, willing to live honor ably in all things.

I beseech you, brethren, bear with my word of exhortation: for I have written to you in few words.

But let patience have its work perfected, that you may be perfect and faultless, wanting in nothing.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, who has shown no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

What profit is there, my brethren, if any one say he has faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?

But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith by your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

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

You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not.

your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and their rust will be a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days.

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which has been unjustly withheld by you, cries out: and the cries of those who have reaped, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned and killed the Just One: and he does not set himself against you.

Behold, we count those happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the final dealing of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

-whom, though you have not seen him, yet you love; on whom not now looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory,

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.

if; indeed, you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

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

To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps.

For you were like sheep that had gone astray; but now you have returned to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.

For this cause, indeed, even those who have died had the gospel preached to them, that though they might be judged according to the will of men in the flesh, yet they might live according to the will of God in the spirit.

But, above all things, have fervent love one for another; for love will cover a multitude of sins.

But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.

By Sylvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained faith, equally as precious as our own, in the plan of justification revealed by our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

through which things very great and precious favors that were promised have been given us, that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire:

But I will earnestly endeavor that you may be able, even after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.