To which end we also pray for you always, that our God may account you worthy of your calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and work of faith, with power;

unto which He called you through our Gospel, to an obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So, then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the instructions which ye were taught, whether through speech, or through letter of ours.

And we have become confident in the Lord regarding you, that ye both do, and will do, the things which we command.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the instruction which ye received from us.

The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is a sign in every letter; so I write.

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies; which, indeed, occasion disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, so do I now.

which some having missed turned aside to vain talk;

according to the Gospel of the glory of the Blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

holding faith, and a good conscience, which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith;

but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works.

For those serving well as deacons acquire for themselves a noble standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

but, if I delay, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in a house of God, which, indeed, is an assembly of the living God, a pillar and basis of the truth,

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.

Suggesting these things to the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have strictly followed;

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which is present and that to come.

Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership.

And, at the same time, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

But those, purposing to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which, indeed, sink men into destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is a root of all the evils; which some reaching after wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called, and confessed a good confession before many witnesses.

which in His own times the Happy and Only Potentate will show, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life.

O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge;

which some professing erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith which is in you; which, indeed, dwelt first in your grand-mother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I have become persuaded, in you also.

For which cause, I put you in remembrance that you stir into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of hands.

Who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose, and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before eternal ages,

for which I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.

For which cause I am suffering also these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know Whom I have believed, and have become persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit unto that day.

Hold the pattern of healthful words which you heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

And the things which you heard from me, through many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who will be competent to teach others also.

Therefore, I suffer all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

But do you abide in the, things which you learned and were assured of; knowing from whom you learned them;

and that, from a babe, you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, will recompense to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved His appearing.

The cloak which I left in Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring, and the books, especially the parchments.

Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the full knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

upon hope of eternal life which God, Who cannot lie, promised before eternal times,

but in His own seasons manifested His word in a proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

holding fast the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the healthful doctrine, and to convict those who contradict.

This testimony is true. For which cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

But speak the things which become the healthful teaching;

that aged women, in like manner, be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy, He saved us through a washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit;

hearing of your love and the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

Wherefore, though having much boldness in Christ to enjoin upon you that which is becoming,

how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation; which, indeed, having at first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

For not to angels did He subject the future inhabited earth, of which we are speaking;

For both He Who sanctifieth and those who are sanctified are all of One; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

For, indeed, we have had the Gospel proclaimed to us, even as also they; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mingled with faith on the part of those who heard.

though He was a Son, learned obedience from the things which He suffered;

For the land which drank in the rain that often comes upon it, and brings forth an herb fit for those for whose sake also it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward His name, in having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

that, through two immutable facts, in which it is impossible that God should lie, we may have strong encouragement, who fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;

which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and firm, and entering into the place within the veil;

For He of Whom these things are spoken hath taken part in a different tribe from which no one gave attendance at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah, respecting which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests.

(for the law perfected nothing), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

for the law constitutes men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the oath, which was after the law, constitutes the Son perfected forever.

a Minister of the holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; wherefore, it is necessary that This One also have something which He may offer.

who, indeed, serve in the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses has been divinely warned, when about to make the tabernacle; for "See," saith He, "that you make all things according to the pattern which was showed you in the mount";

but now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much also as He is Mediator of a better covenant, which, indeed, has been enacted on better promises.

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in My covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Because this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Putting My laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people;

For a tabernacle was prepared; the first, in which were both the lamp-stand and the table, and the show-bread, which, indeed, is called "Holy;"

and, after the second veil, a tabernacle which is called the "Holy of Holies:"

having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which was a golden pot containing the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

and over it Cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which things we cannot now speak in detail.

but into the second, the high priest alone, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people;

which, indeed, is a figure for the time present, according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, which cannot, as to the conscience, make the worshiper perfect;

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded in respect to you."

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very likeness of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, perfect those who come to them;

Saving above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and offerings for sin," Thou didst not wish; neither hadst pleasure therein, which, indeed, are offered according to the law;

in which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

And every priest, indeed, stands daily ministering, and ofttimes offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is, His flesh;

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be accounted worthy, who trampled under foot the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant with which He was sanctified an unholy thing, and treated with contempt the Spirit of grace?

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Cast not away, therefore, your boldness, which, indeed, has great recompense.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking.

By faith Noah, being divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he went forth, not knowing whither he was going.

for he was waiting for the city which has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Wherefore also there sprang from one, and one impotent as to these things, as many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.

And, if, indeed, they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians, making an attempt to do, were swallowed up.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, reasons with you as with sons: "My son, do not lightly regard the chastening of the Lord; neither faint, when reproved by Him;

But, if ye are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one shall see the Lord;

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice those who heard entreated that no word more should be added to them;

for they could not bear that which was being commanded: "And, if a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned";

Be not carried away by manifold and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who occupied themselves were not profited.

We have an altar, from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

make you perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be the glory forever. Amen.

Happy is a man who endures temptation; because, when he becomes approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him.