But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by the law of liberty;

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.

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

Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.

Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.

Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter;

Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation;

And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear,

knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,

but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ,

Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen;

as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious,

yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of the corner,

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Be in subjection therefore to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to the king as supreme,

or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well.

as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.

For ye were going astray as sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation.

Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

having a good conscience, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer as well-doers than as evildoers;

which figure also now saves you, even baptism, not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the demand as before God of a good conscience, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.

each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of the various grace of God.

If any one speak as oracles of God; if any one minister as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;

but as ye have share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that in the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exultation.

Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters;

but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name.

not as lording it over your possessions, but being models for the flock.

Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

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

As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue,

for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

But I account it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance,

knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is speedily to take place, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has manifested to me;

And we have the prophetic word made surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until the day dawn and the morning star arise in your hearts;

But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;

and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life;

But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,

but had reproof of his own wickedness the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.

But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless;

and account the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation; according as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him,

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

He that says he abides in him ought, even as he walked, himself also so to walk.

Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour.

As for you let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

and yourselves, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.

And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment.

They are of the world; for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.

Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

And we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son as Saviour of the world.

Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.

And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life, for those that do not sin unto death. There is a sin to death: I do not say of that that he should make a request.

I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.

And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.

Beloved, I desire that in all things thou shouldest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.

For I rejoiced exceedingly when the brethren came and bore testimony to thy holding fast the truth, even as thou walkest in truth.

as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.

But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.

And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, the Lord has come amidst his holy myriads,

I became in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet,

his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;

and his feet like fine brass, as burning in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters;

and having in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword going forth; and his countenance as the sun shines in its power.

And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,

And to the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, he that has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass:

But to you I say, the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I do not cast upon you any other burden;

and he shall shepherd them with an iron rod; as vessels of pottery are they broken in pieces, as I also have received from my Father;

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I shall come upon thee.

I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent.

He that overcomes, to him will I give to sit with me in my throne; as I also have overcome, and have sat down with my Father in his throne.

After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will shew thee the things which must take place after these things.

and before the throne, as a glass sea, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, four living creatures, full of eyes, before and behind;

and the first living creature like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature having the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.

And one of the elders says to me, Do not weep. Behold, the lion which is of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, has overcome so as to open the book, and its seven seals.

And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God which are sent into all the earth:

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as a voice of thunder, Come and see.

And I heard as a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius: and do not injure the oil and the wine.

And there was given to them, to each one a white robe; and it was said to them that they should rest yet a little while, until both their fellow-bondmen and their brethren, who were about to be killed as they, should be fulfilled.