This charge then, I am laying upon you, Timothy, my son, according to the predictions formerly made concerning you. Fight the good fight in the spirit of these predictions,

First of all then, I am urging that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered regularly for all men;

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

It was Adam who was first formed, then Eve.

But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

It is my wish, then, that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule their houses, and give no occasion to our adversary for railing.

Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord, nor for me, his prisoner. Nay, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

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.

Do you then, my son, strengthen you heart in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

If then a man keeps himself clear of these latter, he will be a vessel for honor, consecrated, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a brother beloved; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, both as a man and a fellow Christian.

If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.

What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God's grace he might taste death for every man.

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.

Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. For they repeatedly crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to an open shame.

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

I am referring to the oath because men swear by what is greater than themselves, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

and it was to him that Abraham apportioned a tithe of all the spoil. He was first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, that is, King of Peace;

one who has no need, like the high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people. For his sacrifice was made once for all, when he offered up himself.

For the Law appoints human beings to be high priests, men with all their weakness; but the word of the oath, which was later than the Law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

Such then were the arrangements. Into the outer tent the priests enter continually in the performance of their duties;

While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.

Then I said, "I am come??n the roll of the book it is written of me??o do thy will, O God."

(offerings regularly made under the law), and then it is added, Lo, I come to do thy will, he does away with the first, in order that he may establish the second.

Then he adds, And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay.

By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice more acceptable than that of Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it he, although he is dead, still speaks.

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

If you are left without discipline, in which all children share, then are you bastards and not sons.

to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to his sprinkled Blood whose message cries louder than that of Abel.

whose voice then shook the earth, but now he has promised, saying, Once again, once for all, I make not only earth, but heaven also to tremble.

Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

In his name, then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of lips that confess his name.

Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

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."

You see, then, that it is by his deeds a man is justified, and not simply by his faith.

Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.

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.

You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.

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

when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious.

For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

For it is better that you suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing wrong;

Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin),

Then, when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you too will receive the fadeless wreath of glory.

Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned.

then be sure that the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the wicked (who are even now enduring punishment) for the "Day of Judgment";

For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.

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 that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed by a deluge of water.

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.

and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us, because God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are passing their lives in the truth.

I am hoping soon to see you, and then we shall talk face to face. Peace be to you! The friends send their salutation. Salute the friends by name.

I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first.

Call to mind, then, what you have received and heard, and hold to it, and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I will come as a thief, and you will never know at what hour I am coming upon you.

Then I saw lying upon the right hand of Him who sat upon the throne, a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals.

Then I beheld a Lamb standing as if slain in the midst of the throne and of the four Living Creatures, and in the midst of the Elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes (which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth).

Then I looked and heard a voice of many angels encircling the throne and a voice of the Living Creatures and of the Elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,

Then the angel took the censer, and he filled it with fire from the altar, and poured it upon the earth; and there followed thunders and voices and lightnings and an earthquake.

Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven upon the earth; and to him was given the key to the bottomless pit.

Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet; and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Then the four angels that were held in readiness for that hour and day and month and year, were let loose, to destroy a third of mankind.

"Delay there shall be no more, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to blow his trumpet, then shall there be finished the mystery of God, according to the Good News which he told unto his slaves, the prophets."

Then I was told, "You must prophesy again over many peoples and nations and tongues and kings."

Then the four and twenty Elders who are seated before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshiped God,

Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen inside his sanctuary; and there followed lightnings and voices and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.

Then I saw rising up out of the sea a beast who had ten horns and seven heads. On his horns he had ten diadems, and on his heads blasphemous titles.

Then I saw another angel who was flying in mid-heaven. He had an eternal evangel, to evangelize all the dwellers on the earth, of every nation and tribe and tongue and people.

Then a second angel followed, crying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great, Who has made all the nations drink the wine Of the frenzy of her fornication."

Then I heard a loud voice which came out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go, empty the seven bowls of the wrath of God upon the earth."

Then a mighty angel lifted a boulder like a great millstone, and hurled it into the sea, saying, "So shall Babylon, the great city, be overthrown with a mighty fall, And shall be found no more at all.

Then the four and twenty Elders and the four beasts fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen, Hallelujah!"

And they went up over the broad earth, and surrounded the encampment of the saints, and the beloved city. Then fire fell from the sky and consumed them;

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and the sea is no more.

And the city lies foursquare; the length of it is as great as the breadth. Then he measured the city with the reed, fifteen hundred miles; the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

Then he said to me. "These words may be trusted, and are true. the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his slaves what must soon take place.