And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold me and the children which God gave me.

For this man is judged worthy of more glory than Moses, as much as he has more honor than the house [tabernacle] which he built.

and there is nothing which is not manifest in his sight; for all things are naked and exposed to his eyes, to whom our discourse relates.

Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing.

But the land which drinks in the rain that often falls on it, and produces plants beneficial to those by whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;

but that which produces thorns and thistles is disapproved, and is nigh to a curse, the end of which is to be burned.

For God is not unjust, to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his name, having served the saints and [still] serving them.

for which cause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and entering within the vail,

to whom also Abraham gave a tenth of all, first being interpreted king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace,

For he of whom these things are said belonged to another tribe, of which no one attended to the altar;

for it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, in respect to which tribe Moses said nothing concerning priests.

For there is an abrogation of the commandment which goes before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness;

for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.

but he, on account of his continuing for ever, has a priesthood which passes not away,

For the law constitutes men chief priests having infirmity, but the word of the oath which is after the law the Son made perfect forever.

a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man.

but now he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, for they continued not in my covenant, and I neglected them, says the Lord.

By saying new, he made the first old; but that which is ancient and weak is about to perish.

For the first tabernacle was provided, in which were the candlestick and the table and the show bread, which is called the sanctuary.

having the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which were the golden vase that had the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant,

and over it were the cherubs of glory, overshadowing the propitiation; of which it is not necessary now to speak particularly.

but into the second once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood, which he offers for his errors and those of the people,

which is a type of the time at hand, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshipper as to the conscience,

saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined upon you.

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law,

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

And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days, the Lord says, I will put my laws in their hearts, and in their minds will I write them,

which [entrance] he consecrated for us a new and living way through the vail, that is his flesh,

but a fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which is about to consume the adversaries.

of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace.

But remember the former days, in which having been enlightened you endured a great conflict with sufferings,

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has a great reward.

By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, through which he was declared to be righteous, God testifying to his gifts, and through the same, having died, he speaks still.

By faith Noah having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, fearing built the ark for the salvation of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness by faith.

By faith Abraham being called obeyed and went out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going.

for he looked for the city which has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer and builder is God.

And if they had remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians attempting were swallowed up.

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him,

But if you are without correction of which all are partakers, then you are of foreign birth, and not sons.

Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord,

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;

and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to a sprinkled blood which speaks better than Abel.

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace through which we may serve God acceptably, with piety and fear;

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

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

for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that which is to come.

perfect you in every good work to do his will, doing in you that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever; amen.

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding vice, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

And do they not blaspheme the good name by which you are called?

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him a righteousness, and he was called God's friend.

Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy?

Come now, rich men, weep and lament for the miseries which are coming upon you.

In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials,

that the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is destroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Concerning which salvation the prophets also who prophesied concerning the grace [bestowed] on us inquired diligently and sought,

inquiring as to what person or what time the Spirit of Christ which was in them signified, when it declared before the sufferings of Christ and after these the glories,

to whom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us those things which have now been declared to you by those who preached to you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which the angels desire to look.

having been born again, not from destructible seed but from indestructible, through the word of God which lives and endures.

To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, who stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,

having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation,

but let the hidden man of the heart be adorned with the imperishable [ornaments] of a meek and quiet spirit, which are of great price before God.

in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,

who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water.

The archetype of which, baptism, also now saves us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

in which they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excessive intemperance, blaspheming,

If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

BELOVED, think not strange of the fiery trial which is to try you, as if some strange thing happened to you,

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

I have written to you in a few words by Silvanus [Silas], a faithful brother as I suppose, exhorting you, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,

through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,

but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity,

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.

THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in which I excite your pure minds by remembrance,

by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, was destroyed.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed.

expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being burnt up will be dissolved and the elements be melted with heat.

But we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.

THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our hands felt, concerning the Word of life,??2 and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,??3 that which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

Beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you heard.

Again, a new commandment I write you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now appears.

Let that which you heard from the beginning continue in you. If that which you heard from the beginning continues in you, you also shall continue in the Son and in the Father.

And this is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning; that we should love one another;

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