No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help to me in ministry.

Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.

You be on guard against him too, because he vehemently opposed our words.

The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

I have sent him (who is my very heart) back to you.

I wanted to keep him so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel.

For perhaps it was for this reason that he was separated from you for a little while, so that you would have him back eternally,

Therefore if you regard me as a partner, accept him as you would me.

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him!"

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

Instead someone testified somewhere: "What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Again he says, "I will be confident in him," and again, "Here I am, with the children God has given me."

who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God's house.

And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him, "You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,"

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

Now this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him.

To him also Abraham apportioned a tithe of everything. His name first means king of righteousness, then king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.

and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive.

For he was still in his ancestor Abraham's loins when Melchizedek met him.

For here is the testimony about him: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

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'" --

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

God had told him, "Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,"

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up -- and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God's sight,

For it says in scripture, "Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame."

like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

Whoever speaks, let it be with God's words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.

Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

To him belongs the power forever. Amen.

For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory: "This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted."

When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.

I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God's seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

But whoever has the world's possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.