But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief by night.

When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief:

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

but we being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation;

Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do.

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;

But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we enjoin, ye both do and will do.

not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

and do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines,

This charge, my child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,

maintaining faith and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience,

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,

elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed.

And the things thou hast heard of me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, such as shall be competent to instruct others also.

Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.

in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.

and their word will spread as a gangrene; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

men who as to the truth have gone astray, saying that the resurrection has taken place already; and overthrow the faith of some.

Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.

But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.

For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:

For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works; in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity,

for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.

but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:

not any longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved brother, specially to me, and how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?

If therefore thou holdest me to be a partner with thee, receive him as me;

taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

And as to the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire;

but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age, and a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

They shall perish, but thou continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,

and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.

But as to which of the angels said he ever, Sit at my right hand until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet?

who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;

but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are we, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.

Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;

For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.

and, on account of this infirmity, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

And no one takes the honour to himself but as called by God, even as Aaron also.

Even as also in another place he says, Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.

addressed by God as high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.

For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.

which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,

where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests.

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, Thou art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all in having offered up himself.

(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda;

the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing;

the which is an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,

nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom is with some; but encouraging one another, and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.

as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he persevered, as seeing him who is invisible.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as through dry land; of which the Egyptians having made trial were swallowed up.

And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him;

Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;

But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.

Remember prisoners, as bound with them; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

for of those beasts whose blood is carried as sacrifices for sin into the holy of holies by the high priest, of these the bodies are burned outside the camp.

Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for they watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.

But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:

but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;

and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.

Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?

If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.