For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you.

For this reason I also suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

Follow the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

And the things you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

who have gone astray from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and upset the faith of some.

Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know that they produce quarrels.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, knowing from whom you learned it,

and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

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

In the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior,

he saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but because of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,

This is a trustworthy saying; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are excellent and profitable for men.

Warn a man who is factious once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him,

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,

For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

10 I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.

I would have been glad to keep him with me, so that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;

Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you"? And again, "I will be a father to him and he shall be a son to me"?

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions."

Therefore we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; and they have not known my ways.'

For we have come to share in Christ if we hold our first confidence firm to the end,

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any one of you be judged to have come short of it.

For we also have had the good news preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later of another day.

And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Since then 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 do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

So also Christ did not exalt himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my son, today I have begotten you";

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

For it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

and then have fallen away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put him to an open shame.

For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.

Now if perfection could have been through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not one designated according to the order of Aaron?

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; and so it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

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

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, he entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,

For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."

then he said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

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

Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

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

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage when you are rebuked by him.

If you are left without discipline, in which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Besides this, we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

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

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you."

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

For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city which is to come.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this with joy, and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

I urge you, brethren, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes and say, "Have a seat here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand there," or, "Sit by my feet,"

have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?

Is it not they who blaspheme the honorable name by which you have been called?

For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.

Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out against you; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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

You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Behold, we call those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling with his blood: may grace and peace be yours in abundance.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials,

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaventhings into which angels long to look.

Through him you have confidence in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.