from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,

And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put me to the ministration,

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus:

having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --

and He must not be a new convert, so that he will not [behave stupidly and] become conceited [by appointment to this high office] and fall into the [same] condemnation incurred by the devil [for his arrogance and pride].

for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that is in Christ Jesus.

having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.

for nothing did we bring into the world -- it is manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,

who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom is honour and might age-during! Amen.

which certain professing -- concerning the faith did swerve; the grace is with you. Amen.

{I am thankful} to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience {as my ancestors did}, when {I remember you constantly} in my prayers night and day,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

thou hast known this, that they did turn from me -- all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

may the Lord give to him to find kindness from the Lord in that day; and how many things in Ephesus he did minister thou dost very well know.

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

Moses did not meet with greater opposition from Jannes and Jambres, than truth does from men so corrupted in their mind, and so adulterated in their faith.

but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

The coat which I did not take from Troas and which is with Carpus, get when you come, and the books, specially the papers.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

of whom do you also beware; for greatly did he withstand our words.

and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm;

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

so that we would be justified [made free of the guilt of sin] by His [compassionate, undeserved] grace, and that we would be [acknowledged as acceptable to Him and] made heirs of eternal life [actually experiencing it] according to our hope (His guarantee).

I entreat thee concerning my child -- whom I did beget in my bonds -- Onesimus,

whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,

whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,

But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of obligation, but of your own free will.

for perhaps because of this he did depart for an hour, that age-duringly thou mayest have him,

and if he did hurt to thee, or doth owe anything, this to me be reckoning;

I, Paul did write with my hand, I -- I will repay; that I may not say that also thyself, besides, to me thou dost owe.

having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;

in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;

having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.

For to which of the angels did the Father ever say,

“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten (fathered) You [established You as a Son, with kingly dignity]”?

And again [did He ever say to the angels],

“I shall be a Father to Him
And He shall be a Son to Me”?

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

And,

“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,
And the heavens are the works of Your hands;

But to which of the angels did he ever say, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"?

for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak.

and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, 'What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?

You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:

all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,

and again, 'Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --

For, as we all know, He (Christ) does not take hold of [the fallen] angels [to give them a helping hand], but He does take hold of [the fallen] descendants of Abraham [extending to them His hand of deliverance].

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build is God,

do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

seeing that the warning still comes to us, "To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation."

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on account of not hearkening to the word,

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.

And besides, one does not appropriate for himself the honor [of being high priest], but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

Which in the days of his flesh, did offer up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death: and was also heard, because of his godliness.

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered -- the obedience,

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age,

For God is not unjust; he will not forget the work that you did, and the love that you showed for his Name, in sending help to your fellow Christians--as you are still doing.

For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age.

For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, 'King of righteousness,' and then also, King of Salem, which is, King of Peace,)

And see how great this one is, to whom also a tenth Abraham the patriarch did give out of the best of the spoils,

But the one who did not trace [his] descent from them collected tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

For it is, very evident, that out of Judah hath sprung our Lord, - respecting which tribe, concerning priests, nothing did Moses speak,

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever'" --

For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

And the sum concerning the things spoken of is: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,