who through him, believe in God, who raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

to whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious;

To you, then, who trust, it is precious; but to unbelieving- a stone which the builders rejected, which has become the head of the corner-

a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. Those who stumble at the word, are disobedient unbelievers, to which, therefore, they were appointed:

but you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people; that you should declare the perfections of him who has called you from darkness into his marvelous light:

who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

or to governor, as those sent by him for the punishment, indeed, of evil doers; but for the praise of them who do good.

who did not sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;

who, when he was reviled, did not revile in return; when he suffered he did not threaten, but committed his cause to him who judges righteously-

who himself bore away our sins in his own body, on the tree; that we, being freed from sins, should live to righteousness; by whose stripes you are healed.

For thus, anciently, the holy women, also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands;

"For he who is desirous to enjoy life, and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

Besides, who is he that will do evil to you, if you be imitators of the Good One?

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and be always prepared for giving an answer, with meekness and reverence, to every one who asks of you a reason for the hope which is in you.

Hold fast a good conscience, that, whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may be put to shame who arraign your good behavior in Christ.

who formerly were disobedient, when the patience of God once waited, in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were effectually saved through water-

who, having gone into heaven, is at the right hand of God; angels, and authorities, and powers, being subjected to him.

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, do you also warm yourselves with the same mind: for he who has suffered in the flesh, has ceased from sin;

who shall give account to him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead.

If any one speak, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any one minister, let him do it as from the strength which God supplies; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

Indeed, the time is come that punishment must begin at the house of God; and if it begin first at us, what the end of them who do not obey the gospel of God?

Wherefore, then, let those who suffer by the will of God, commit their own lives to him in well doing, as a faithful Creator.

The seniors who are among you, I exhort, who am also a senior, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory which is to be revealed.

Be sober, be vigilant: your adversary, the devil, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour:

whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the very same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren, who are in the world.

And may the God of all favor, who has called us to his eternal glory, by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, himself make you complete; support, strengthen, establish you:

Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace to you all, who are in Christ Jesus.

Symeon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to them who have obtained like precious faith with us, through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

As his divine power has gifted to us all things which are necessary to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue.

But he who has not these things, is blind, shutting his eyes, having become forgetful of the purification of his old sins.

for when he received from God the Father honor and glory, a vice to this effect came to him from the magnificent glory, "This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I delight."

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you; who will privately introduce destructive sects, denying even the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

And many will follow their lewd practices, on account of whom, they way of truth will be evil spoken of.

And through covetousness, they will make merchandise of you, by fictitious tales: to whom the punishment threatened of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

For God, indeed, did not spare the angels who sinned, but with chains of darkness confining them in Tartarus, delivered them over to be kept for judgment;

and having reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, punished them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who should afterward live ungodly:

but especially those who go after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and who despise government: being audacious, self-willed, who fear not to revile dignitaries;

whereas, angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

having forsaken the right path, they have wandered, following in the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest; for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever:

for, speaking great swelling words of falsehood, they allure by the lusts of the flesh, even by lasciviousness, those who have actually fled away from them who are living in error.

He who says, I have known him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this man.

He who says he abides in him, ought, himself, also, so to walk even as he walked.

He who says he is in the light and yet hates his brother, is in the darkness till now.

He who loves his brother, abides in the light, and there is no stumbling block to him.

But he who hates his brother, is in the darkness, and walks in that darkness, and does not know whither he goes; because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Now the world passes away, and the lust of it; be he who does the will of God, abides forever.

Who is a liar, if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

These things I have written to you, concerning them who deceive you;

If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who works righteousness, has been begotten by him.

And every one who has this hope in him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

Every one who works sin, works also the transgression of law; for sin is the transgression of law.

Little children, let no one deceive you: he who works righteousness, is righteous, even as He is righteous.

He who works sin, is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

By this the children of God are discovered, and the children of the devil: whoever works not righteousness, is not of God, neither he who loves not his brother.

Not being of the wicked one, as Cain was, who slew his brother. And on account of what, did he slay him? Because his own works were wicked, and his brother's righteous.

We know that we have passed away from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who loves not his brother, abides in death.

Every one who hates his brother, is a manslayer; and you know that no manslayer has eternal life abiding in him.

Now he who keeps His commandments, abides in him, and He in him; and by this we know that he abides in us, even by the Spirit, which he has given us.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he is greater, who is with you, than he who is with the world.

We are of God: he who know God, hearkens to us; he who is not of God, hearkens not to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God: and every one who loves, has been begotten by God, and knows God.

He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

And we have known, and believed the love which God has in us. God is love; wherefore, he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment: therefore, he who fears is not made perfect in love.

If any one say, Indeed I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he who loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God, whom he has not seen?

Moreover, this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God, loves his brother, also.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been begotten by God; and every one who loves the begetter, loves also the begotten by him.

Who is he that overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is her who came by water and blood, even Jesus the Christ; not by the water only, but by the water and the blood.

And it is the Spirit who testified; because the Spirit is the truth.

Indeed, there are three who bear testimony: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and these three agree in one.

(He who believes on the Son of God, has the testimony in himself. He who believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony, which God has testified concerning his Son.)

He who has the Son, has this life; he who has not the Son of God, has not this life.

If any one see his brother sinning a sin, not to death, let him ask, and he will grant to him life, for those who sin not to death. There is a sin leading to death. I do not say concerning it, that you should ask.

We know that whoever has been begotten by God, does not sin; but he who is begotten by God, guards himself, and the wicked on does not lay hold on him.

The elder, to Electa Cyria, and her children, whom I love sincerely; and not I only, but also all who have known the truth;

for many deceivers are entered into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ did come in the flesh. This is the deceiver, and the antichrist.

Whoever transgresses, and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ, has not God: he who abides in the doctrine of Christ, has both the Father and the Son.

for he who wishes him success, partakes in his evil deeds.

The elder, to Gaius, the beloved, whom I love in the truth.

These have borne testimony to your love, in the presence of the congregation; whom, if you help forward on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well.

I wrote to the congregation: but Diotrephes, who affects a pre-eminence among them, does not receive us.

For this cause, when I come, I will bring his deeds to remembrance, which he practices-prating against us with malicious words; and, not content with this, he does not himself receive the brethren, and forbids them who would, and casts them out of the congregation.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good, is of God; but he who does evil, has not seen God.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them who are sanctified by God the Father, and to the preserved by Jesus Christ, to the called:

For certain men have come in privily, who long ago were before written to this very condemnation; ungodly men, perverting the favor of our God to lasciviousness, and denying the only sovereign Lord, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you formerly knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them who did not believe.

Also, the angels who kept not their first estate, but left their proper habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains, under darkness, to the judgment of the great day.

Truly, in like manner, also, shall these dreamers be punished-who, indeed, defile the flesh, despise authority, and blaspheme dignities.

raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved.

These are murmurers, and complainers, who walk according to their own lusts; and their mouths speak great swelling words. They admire persons for the sake of gain.

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit.

Now to him who is able to guard you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory, with exceeding joy;

who testified the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, whatever he saw.

John, to the seven congregation which are in Asia; favor and peace be with you, from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before his throne;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who has loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Behold, he is coming in the clouds; and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him: and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of him. Yes: so let it be.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

I, John, who am also your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.