God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.

Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

For reckon over him having endured such contradiction of the sinful against himself, lest being harassed, ye labor in your souls.

For whom the Lord loves he corrects, and he chastises every son which he receives.

If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?

For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.

And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.

Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture.

For ye know also afterwards, wishing to inherit the praise, he was disapproved of: for he found no place for a change of mind, although having sought it with tears.

For ye have not come to the mount being handled, and burned with fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness, and to a violent storm,

(For they did not bear that being assigned, And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shall be pierced with a missile weapon:

See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:

For also our God is a consuming fire.

Forget not hospitality: for by this some knew not having treated angels with friendship.

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

So that being confident, we say, The Lord aiding me, and I will not fear what man will do to me.

Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day the same, and for ever.

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

for of whom the blood of the living ones is brought for sin into the holies by the chief priest, the bodies of these are burned without the camp.

For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.

And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.

Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied.

Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.

And I beseech you, brethren, hold up the word of entreaty: for I also sent to you in a few words.

And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.

For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings.

Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.

Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none:

Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.

For man s anger works not the justice of God.

For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror:

For he observed himself, and went away, and straightway forgot of what kind he was.

Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

For if there come into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings on is fingers, in brilliant clothing, and there come in also a beggar in filthy clothing;

For whoever shall keep the whole law, and stumble in one, has become bound of all.

For he having said, Thou shouldest not commit adultery, said also, Thou shouldest not kill: and if thou commit not adultery, and dost kill, thou hast become a transgressor of the law.

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

And the writing was completed, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice: and he was called the Friend of God.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.

So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.

For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man:

Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.

For where envy and intrigue, there confusion and every bad deed.

Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us?

(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)

For you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, and should do this, or that.

Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you.

Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days.

Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain.

Be longsuffering, ye also; make your hearts firm: for the arrival of the Lord has drawn near.

Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord:

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not upon the earth for three years and six months.

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,

By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:

That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you:

Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.

For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:

Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,

For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out:

As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.

(For so is the will of God, those doing good to silence the want of knowledge of the foolish men:)

As free, and as not having liberty for a covering of wickedness, but as the servants of God.

Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked.

For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly.

For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.

For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:

For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls.

Having beheld in fear your pure turning back.

For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands:

Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise.

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:

For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil.

But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:

Fur better, doing good, if the will of God will, to suffer, than doing evil.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:

Therefore Christ having suffered for us in the flesh,, also arm ye yourselves with the same mind: (for he having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;)

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

For also for this was the good news announced to the dead, that truly they might be judged according to men in the flesh, and live according to God in the spirit.

More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.

If any speak, as the oracles of God; if any serve, as of the strength which God furnishes: that in all God might be praised by Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory and strength for the time of times. Amen.

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:

If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.

For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others.

For the time for judgment to have begun from the house of God: and if first from us, what the end of them not believing the good tidings of God?

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.

Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:

To him the glory and the strength for the time of times. Amen.