encourage you and strengthen you to do and say everything that is right.

Now, brothers, pray for us, that the Lord's message may spread rapidly and gloriously as it did among you,

and that we may be saved from unjust and wicked men; for not everybody has faith.

We have faith in you through the Lord that you are doing and will keep doing what we direct you to do.

Not that I had not a right to my support, but to give you in my own conduct an example to imitate.

For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.

The aim of your instruction must be love that springs from a pure heart and from a good conscience and from a sincere faith.

I agree that the Law is excellent??rovided it is legitimately used,

with the understanding that law is not intended for upright men but for the lawless and disorderly, the godless and irreligious, the irreverent and profane, men who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers,

and the blessing of our Lord has been given me in the greatest abundance, together with faith and love that union with Christ Jesus brings.

It is a trustworthy saying, entitled to the fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of them,

but God had mercy on me in order that in my case as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display his perfect patience, as an example to those who would later believe in him and find eternal life.

These are the instructions that I intrust to you, my son Timothy, and they are in accordance with the predictions made long ago about you. Fight the good fight with their aid,

keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. For some people have let that go and have had their faith ruined,

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for all men,

for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.

I want the men everywhere to offer prayer, lifting to heaven hands that are holy, without any angry disputes.

so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach

who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for.

It is for this that we toil and struggle, for we have fixed our hopes on the living God, the Savior of all men, especially those who believe.

Do not neglect the gift you have, that was given you with predictions of your work, when the elders laid their hands upon you.

Cultivate these things, devote yourself to them, so that everyone will see your progress.

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

Insist upon these points, so that people may be irreproachable.

Any Christian woman who has widowed relatives should look after them, and relieve the church, so that it can look after widows who are really dependent.

All who are under the yoke of slavery must treat their masters with the greatest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be abused.

But men who want to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, harmful cravings, that plunge people into destruction and ruin.

storing up a valuable treasure for themselves for the future, so as to grasp the life that is life indeed.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus in fulfilment of the promise of that life which is found in union with Christ Jesus,

of being reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that was seen first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice; I am sure it is in you also.

For this reason I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift that you received when I laid my hands upon you.

This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.

As your example in wholesome instruction, keep before you what you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.

Guard that splendid trust through the holy Spirit that lives in our hearts.

You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

The Lord grant that he may be shown mercy by the Lord on that Day! And you know well enough how he helped me at Ephesus.

So you, my son, must find strength in the blessing that comes through Christ Jesus.

For that reason I am ready to submit to anything for the sake of those whom God has chosen, so that they too may gain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.

who have missed the truth and say that the resurrection has taken place already, thus undermining people's faith.

Understand this, that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

But they will not make much progress, for everyone will perceive their folly, just as they did that of those others.

my persecutions, my sufferings??he things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the persecutions I endured; yet the Lord brought me safely out of them all.

and how from childhood you have known the Scriptures which can give you the wisdom that through faith in Christ Jesus leads to salvation.

so that the man of God will be adequate, and equipped for any good work.

Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and the books, especially the parchments.

But the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, so that I might make a full presentation of the message and let all the heathen hear it. So I was saved from the jaws of the lion.

standing by the message that can be relied on, just as he was taught it, so that he may be qualified both to encourage others with wholesome teaching and to show the error of those who oppose him.

and that statement is true. Therefore correct them rigorously, to make them have a healthy faith,

But you must teach people the things that properly belong to wholesome teaching.

and present a wholesome, unobjectionable message, so that your opponent may be put to shame at finding nothing bad to say about us.

so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope.

This is a trustworthy teaching, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who believe in God may make it their business to do good. All this is right and beneficial to mankind.

You may be sure that a man of that kind is corrupt and sinful, for his own actions condemn him.

Do all you can to help Zenas the expert in the Law and Apollos on with their journey, and see that they have everything they need.

and our sister Apphia, and our fellow-soldier Archippus, and the church that meets in your house;

and I pray that through coming to know every good thing about us as Christians they may effectually share your faith.

and now that I send him back to you, it is like sending my very heart.

but I do not wish to do anything without your consent, so that your kindness might be voluntary, and not have the appearance of compulsion.

For perhaps this is why you and he were parted for a while, that you might have him back forever,

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it??ot to mention the fact that you owe me your very self besides.

I write you in full reliance upon your obedience; I know that you will do even more than I ask.

And get ready to entertain me too, for I hope that I shall be restored to you, in answer to your prayers.

It was little by little and in different ways that God spoke in old times to our forefathers through the prophets,

You have loved right and hated wrong! That is why God, your God, has anointed you with exhilarating oil beyond all your comrades."

For it was not for angels that he destined the control of that world to be, that we are speaking of.

You have put everything under his feet!" In thus making everything subject to man, God left nothing that was not subjected to him. But we do not as yet see everything made subject to him,

but we do see Jesus, who was "made for a little while inferior to angels, crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death, so that by the favor of God he might taste the bitterness of death on behalf of every human being.

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

For both he who purifies them and they who are purified spring from one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

and again "I will put my trust in God"; and again, "Here I am with the children that God has given me."

Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil,

For of course it was not angels but the descendants of Abraham that he came to help.

And so he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might prove a compassionate high priest as well as one faithful in his service to God, in order to forgive the people's sins.

Now the faithfulness of Moses in all the house of God was that of a servant, in faithfully repeating what he was told to say;

but Christ's faithfulness was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are that house, if we keep up our courage and our triumphant hope to the very end.

Do not harden your hearts as your forefathers provoked me by doing, As in that time of trial in the desert,

That was why I was angry with that generation, And I said, 'Their minds are always wandering, And they have never found my paths.'

See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God,

but encourage one another every day, as long as we can still speak of Today, so that no one of you may have his heart hardened by the pleasantness of sin.

For we are true partners with Christ if we really keep the conviction that we had at first unshaken to the very end.

For who was it that heard him speak and yet provoked him? Was it not all those who had escaped from Egypt under Moses' leadership?

And who was it to whom God made oath that they should not be admitted to his Rest, if it was not to those who had disobeyed him?

So we see that it was their unbelief that kept them from being admitted to it.

We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

For we who have believed are admitted to that Rest, of which he said, "As I made oath in my anger, They shall never be admitted to my Rest!" And yet God's work was finished at the creation of the world,

Since then it is still true that somebody will be admitted to it, and those who had a gospel preached to them before were not admitted because of their disobedience,

Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.

Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing.

But about you, dear friends, even though we say this, we are sure of better things that promise salvation.

so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

Therefore, God in his desire to make it perfectly clear to those to whom he made his promise, that his purpose was unalterable, bound himself with an oath,

so that by these two unalterable things, which make it impossible for God to break his promise, we who have taken refuge with him may be greatly encouraged to seize upon the hope that is offered to us.

Those of the descendants of Levi who are appointed to the priesthood are directed by the Law to collect tithes from the people, that is, from their own brothers, although they are descended from Abraham like themselves.

But, beyond any doubt, it is the inferior that is blessed by the superior.

For it is perfectly clear that our Lord sprang from the tribe of Judah, with reference to which Moses said nothing at all about priests.

The point is still more clear in view of the fact that the appointment of the new priest resembles that of Melchizedek,

for he is appointed not for possessing any legal physical qualifications, but by virtue of a life that cannot end.

to officiate as priest in the sanctuary and in that true tent of worship which not man but the Lord himself set up.