5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:

for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the

dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the

Lord is.

5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with

the Spirit;

5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the

name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head

of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be

to their own husbands in every thing.

5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church,

and gave himself for it;

5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by

the word,

5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having

spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and

without blemish.

5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that

loveth his wife loveth himself.

5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and

cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall

be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the

church.

5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife

even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with

promise;

6:3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the

earth.

6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them

up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the

flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto

Christ;

6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ,

doing the will of God from the heart;

6:7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

6:8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he

receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

6:9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing

threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is

there respect of persons with him.

6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of

his might.

6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand

against the wiles of the devil.

6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against

principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of

this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be

able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and

having on the breastplate of righteousness;

6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able

to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,

which is the word of God:

6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and

watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all

saints;

6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my

mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

6:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak

boldly, as I ought to speak.

6:21 But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a

beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to

you all things:

6:22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know

our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father

and the Lord Jesus Christ.

6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in

sincerity. Amen.

Philippians

Chapter

2   3   4

1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints

in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord

Jesus Christ.

1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

1:4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good

work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have

you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and

confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels

of Jesus Christ.

1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in

knowledge and in all judgment;

1:10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be

sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus

Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which

happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the

gospel;

1:13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in

all other places;

1:14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds,

are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of

good will:

1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to

add affliction to my bonds:

1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the

gospel.

1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in

truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will

rejoice.

1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your

prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I

shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also

Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by

death.

1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet

what I shall choose I wot not.

1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to

be with Christ; which is far better:

1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue

with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by

my coming to you again.

1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ:

that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your

affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving

together for the faith of the gospel;

1:28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an

evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to

believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

1:30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in

me.

2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of

love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being

of one accord, of one mind.

2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of

mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the

things of others.

2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal

with God:

2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a

servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became

obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name

which is above every name:

2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in

heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to

the glory of God the Father.

2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my

presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own

salvation with fear and trembling.

2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his

good pleasure.

2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without

rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye

shine as lights in the world;

2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of

Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your

faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you,

that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your

state.

2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he

hath served with me in the gospel.

2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how

it will go with me.

2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my

brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger,

and he that ministered to my wants.

2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because

that ye had heard that he had been sick.

2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him;

and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon

sorrow.

2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him

again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such

in reputation:

2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not

regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things

to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and

rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man

thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of

Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness

which is in the law, blameless.

3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of

the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss

of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of

the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the

righteousness which is of God by faith:

3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the

fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect:

but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am

apprehended of Christ Jesus.

3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one

thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth

unto those things which are before,

3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in

Christ Jesus.

3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in

any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the

same rule, let us mind the same thing.

3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so

as ye have us for an ensample.

3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you

even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory

is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the

Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto

his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to

subdue all things unto himself.

4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and

crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same

mind in the Lord.

4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which

laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my

fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and

supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep

your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are

honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,

whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if

there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard,

and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care

of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked

opportunity.

4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in

whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where

and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both

to abound and to suffer need.

4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

4:14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my

affliction.

4:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel,

when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as

concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

4:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to

your account.

4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of

Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet

smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in

glory by Christ Jesus.

4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me

greet you.

4:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's

household.

4:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Colossians

Chapter

2   3   4

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus

our brother,

1:2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse:

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus

Christ.

1:3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

praying always for you,

1:4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which

ye have to all the saints,

1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard

before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

1:6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth

forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and

knew the grace of God in truth:

1:7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for

you a faithful minister of Christ;

1:8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to

pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge

of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being

fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto

all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be

partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath

translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness

of sins:

1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every

creature:

1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that

are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or

dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him,

and for him:

1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,

the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the

preeminence.

1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to

reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things

in earth, or things in heaven.

1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by

wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and

unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved

away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was

preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made

a minister;

1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is

behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake,

which is the church:

1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God

which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from

generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of

this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of

glory:

1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all

wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which

worketh in me mightily.

2:1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for

them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love,

and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the

acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the

spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your

faith in Christ.

2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in

him:

2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have

been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,

after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not

after Christ.

2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality

and power:

2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without

hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the

circumcision of Christ:

2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him

through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the

dead.

2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your

flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all

trespasses;

2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,

which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his

cross;

2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of

them openly, triumphing over them in it.

2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect

of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and

worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not

seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and

bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with

the increase of God.

2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the

world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

2:21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

2:22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and

doctrines of men?

2:23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and

humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the

satisfying of the flesh.

3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,

where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also

appear with him in glory.

3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;

fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and

covetousness, which is idolatry:

3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of

disobedience:

3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,

filthy communication out of your mouth.

3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with

his deeds;

3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after

the image of him that created him:

3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor

uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all,

and in all.

3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of

mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have

a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of

perfectness.

3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye

are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching

and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the

Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in

the Lord.

3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well

pleasing unto the Lord.

3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be

discouraged.

3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh;

not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing

God;

3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto

men;

3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the

inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath

done: and there is no respect of persons.

4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;

knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

4:3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of

utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:

4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may

know how ye ought to answer every man.

4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved

brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:

4:8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know

your estate, and comfort your hearts;

4:9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you.

They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.

4:10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's

son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come

unto you, receive him;)

4:11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision.

These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been

a comfort unto me.

4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you,

always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect

and complete in all the will of God.

4:13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them

that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.

4:15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the

church which is in his house.

4:16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also

in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle

from Laodicea.

4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast

received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

4:18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be

with you. Amen.

1 Thessalonians

Chapter

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1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the

Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ:

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus

Christ.

1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in

our prayers;

1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love,

and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and

our Father;

1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power,

and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of

men we were among you for your sake.

1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the

word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.

1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and

Achaia.

1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia

and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread

abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had

unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and

true God;

1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead,

even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was

not in vain:

2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully

entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak

unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in

guile:

2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel,

even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a

cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when

we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her

children:

2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have

imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls,

because ye were dear unto us.

2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring

night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we

preached unto you the gospel of God.

2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and

unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of

you, as a father doth his children,

2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his

kingdom and glory.

2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye

received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the

word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually

worketh also in you that believe.

2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in

Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of

your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have

persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to

fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the

uttermost.

2:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in

presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face

with great desire.

2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again;

but Satan hindered us.

2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even

ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.

3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be

left at Athens alone;

3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our

fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort

you concerning your faith:

3:3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves

know that we are appointed thereunto.

3:4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should

suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your

faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour

be in vain.

3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good

tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of

us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our

affliction and distress by your faith:

3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy

wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and

might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct

our way unto you.

3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward

another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness

before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with

all his saints.

4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the

Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to

please God, so ye would abound more and more.

4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye

should abstain from fornication:

4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in

sanctification and honour;

4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know

not God:

4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because

that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you

and testified.

4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath

also given unto us his holy Spirit.

4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you:

for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

4:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all

Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to

work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye

may have lack of nothing.

4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them

which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also

which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are

alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them

which are asleep.

4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with

the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in

Christ shall rise first:

4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with

them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be

with the Lord.

4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I

write unto you.

5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as

a thief in the night.

5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction

cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not

escape.

5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake

you as a thief.

5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we

are not of the night, nor of darkness.

5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be

sober.

5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are

drunken in the night.

5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate

of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by

our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live

together with him.

5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even

as also ye do.

5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you,

and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And

be at peace among yourselves.

5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the

feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow

that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

5:16 Rejoice evermore.

5:17 Pray without ceasing.

5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ

Jesus concerning you.

5:19 Quench not the Spirit.

5:20 Despise not prophesyings.

5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your

whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of

our Lord Jesus Christ.

5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

5:25 Brethren, pray for us.

5:26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the

holy brethren.

5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

2 Thessalonians

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1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the

Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

1:2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus

Christ.

1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet,

because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every

one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your

patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye

endure:

1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye

may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to

them that trouble you;

1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall

be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that

obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence

of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired

in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed)

in that day.

1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you

worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his

goodness, and the work of faith with power:

1:12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and

ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus

Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by

spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ

is at hand.

2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come,

except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,

the son of perdition;

2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or

that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,

shewing himself that he is God.

2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these

things?

2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his

time.

2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now

letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume

with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of

his coming:

2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power

and signs and lying wonders,

2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;

because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be

saved.

2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they

should believe a lie:

2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had

pleasure in unrighteousness.

2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren

beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to

salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the

glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye

have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which

hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope

through grace,

2:17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have

free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:

3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for

all men have not faith.

3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from

evil.

3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and

will do the things which we command you.

3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the

patient waiting for Christ.

3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly,

and not after the tradition which he received of us.

3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not

ourselves disorderly among you;

3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with

labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any

of you:

3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample

unto you to follow us.

3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any

would not work, neither should he eat.

3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly,

working not at all, but are busybodies.

3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus

Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man,

and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

3:15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means.

The Lord be with you all.

3:17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in

every epistle: so I write.

3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

1 Timothy

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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our

Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;

1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from

God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

1:3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into

Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other

doctrine,

1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister

questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and

of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

1:6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

1:7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they

say, nor whereof they affirm.

1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for

the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy

and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for

manslayers,

1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for

menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other

thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was

committed to my trust.

1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he

counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I

obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and

love which is in Christ Jesus.

1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus

Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which

should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God,

be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the

prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a

good warfare;

1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away

concerning faith have made shipwreck:

1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto

Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,

intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a

quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of

the truth.

2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man

Christ Jesus;

2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the

truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and

verity.

2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands,

without wrath and doubting.

2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,

with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or

pearls, or costly array;

2:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the

man, but to be in silence.

2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the

transgression.

2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they

continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he

desireth a good work.

3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant,

sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but

patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

3:4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in

subjection with all gravity;

3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take

care of the church of God?)

3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the

condemnation of the devil.

3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest

he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to

much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

3:10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of

a deacon, being found blameless.

3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful

in all things.

3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children

and their own houses well.

3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to

themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in

Christ Jesus.

3:14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to

behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living

God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was

manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached

unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some

shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and

doctrines of devils;

4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a

hot iron;

4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God

hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and

know the truth.

4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it

be received with thanksgiving:

4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt

be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith

and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself

rather unto godliness.

4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable

unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that

which is to come.

4:9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust

in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those

that believe.

4:11 These things command and teach.

4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the

believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in

purity.

4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to

doctrine.

4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by

prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy

profiting may appear to all.

4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them:

for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger

men as brethren;

5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

5:3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.

5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to

shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and

acceptable before God.

5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and

continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

5:7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his

own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old,

having been the wife of one man.

5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children,

if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if

she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every

good work.

5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax

wanton against Christ, they will marry;

5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to

house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking

things which they ought not.

5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide

the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

5:15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.

5:16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve

them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that

are widows indeed.

5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour,

especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth

out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three

witnesses.

5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

5:21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect

angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before

another, doing nothing by partiality.

5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's

sins: keep thyself pure.

5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake

and thine often infirmities.

5:24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and

some men they follow after.

5:25 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and

they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

6:1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters

worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not

blasphemed.

6:2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them,

because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are

faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and

exhort.

6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even

the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is

according to godliness;

6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes

of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the

truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

6:7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can

carry nothing out.

6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and

into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and

perdition.

6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some

coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves

through with many sorrows.

6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after

righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto

thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many

witnesses.

6:13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things,

and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good

confession;

6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until

the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only

Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can

approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and

power everlasting. Amen.

6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not

highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who

giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

6:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to

distribute, willing to communicate;

6:19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the

time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding

profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so

called:

6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be

with thee. Amen.

2 Timothy

Chapter

2   3   4

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to

the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

1:2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God

the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience,

that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and

day;

1:4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may

be filled with joy;

1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee,

which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I

am persuaded that in thee also.

1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of

God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of

love, and of a sound mind.

1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of

me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel

according to the power of God;

1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according

to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was

given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus

Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality

to light through the gospel:

1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher

of the Gentiles.

1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am

not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he

is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in

faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy

Ghost which dwelleth in us.

1:15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away

from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

1:16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft

refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

1:17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and

found me.

1:18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that

day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou

knowest very well.

2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ

Jesus.

2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the

same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others

also.

2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this

life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,

except he strive lawfully.

2:6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all

things.

2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the

dead according to my gospel:

2:9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the

word of God is not bound.

2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may

also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also

live with him:

2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also

will deny us:

2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the

Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the

subverting of the hearers.

2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not

to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto

more ungodliness.

2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and

Philetus;

2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection

is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal,

The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the

name of Christ depart from iniquity.

2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of

silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to

dishonour.

2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel

unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared

unto every good work.

2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity,

peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do

gender strifes.

2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all

men, apt to teach, patient,

2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God

peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the

truth;

2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil,

who are taken captive by him at his will.

3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,

proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,

incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of

God;

3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such

turn away.

3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive

silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist

the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest

unto all men, as their's also was.

3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose,

faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

3:11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at

Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the

Lord delivered me.

3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer

persecution.

3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and

being deceived.

3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast

been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which

are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in

Christ Jesus.

3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for

doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all

good works.

4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who

shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,

rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but

after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having

itching ears;

4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be

turned unto fables.

4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an

evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at

hand.

4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept

the faith:

4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which

the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me

only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

4:9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:

4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is

departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is

profitable to me for the ministry.

4:12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.

4:13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring

with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him

according to his works:

4:15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

4:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I

pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that

by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles

might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will

preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and

ever. Amen.

4:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

4:20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum

sick.

4:21 Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and

Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

Titus

Chapter

2   3

1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to

the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is

after godliness;

1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before

the world began;

1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which

is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

1:4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and

peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in

order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I

had appointed thee:

1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful

children not accused of riot or unruly.

1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not

selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to

filthy lucre;

1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy,

temperate;

1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may

be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially

they of the circumcision:

1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching

things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians

are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may

be sound in the faith;

1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that

turn from the truth.

1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled

and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is

defiled.

1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being

abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in

charity, in patience.

2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh

holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good

things;

2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their

husbands, to love their children,

2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own

husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

2:7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine

shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the

contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please

them well in all things; not answering again;

2:10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn

the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all

men,

2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should

live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the

great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity,

and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let

no man despise thee.

3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey

magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all

meekness unto all men.

3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived,

serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful,

and hating one another.

3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man

appeared,

3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to

his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of

the Holy Ghost;

3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according

to the hope of eternal life.

3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm

constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to

maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and

strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition

reject;

3:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being

condemned of himself.

3:12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to

come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.

3:13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently,

that nothing be wanting unto them.

3:14 And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses,

that they be not unfruitful.

3:15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the

faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Philemon

1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto

Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,

1:2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to

the church in thy house:

1:3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus

Christ.

1:4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,

1:5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord

Jesus, and toward all saints;

1:6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the

acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

1:7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the

bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

1:8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that

which is convenient,

1:9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul

the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

1:10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my

bonds:

1:11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to

thee and to me:

1:12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine

own bowels:

1:13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have

ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

1:14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should

not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

1:15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest

receive him for ever;

1:16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved,

specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in

the Lord?

1:17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

1:18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine

account;

1:19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit

I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

1:20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my

bowels in the Lord.

1:21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that

thou wilt also do more than I say.

1:22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your

prayers I shall be given unto you.

1:23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;

1:24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.

1:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Hebrews

Chapter

2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13

1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past

unto the fathers by the prophets,

1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath

appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his

person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had

by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on

high:

1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance

obtained a more excellent name than they.

1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son,

this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and

he shall be to me a Son?

1:6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he

saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his

ministers a flame of fire.

1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:

a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God,

even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy

fellows.

1:10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the

earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

1:11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old

as doth a garment;

1:12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be

changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right

hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for

them who shall be heirs of salvation?

2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which

we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every

transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the

first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them

that heard him;

2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with

divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

2:5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come,

whereof we speak.

2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou

art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him

with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

2:8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that

he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put

under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for

the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the

grace of God should taste death for every man.

2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all

things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their

salvation perfect through sufferings.

2:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of

one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

2:12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of

the church will I sing praise unto thee.

2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the

children which God hath given me.

2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he

also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might

destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime

subject to bondage.

2:16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on

him the seed of Abraham.

2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his

brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things

pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to

succour them that are tempted.

3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,

consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

3:2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was

faithful in all his house.

3:3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch

as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

3:4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things

is God.

3:5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a

testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we

hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the

end.

3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his

voice,

3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of

temptation in the wilderness:

3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty

years.

3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do

alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of

unbelief, in departing from the living God.

3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any

of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of

our confidence stedfast unto the end;

3:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your

hearts, as in the provocation.

3:16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that

came out of Egypt by Moses.

3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that

had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but

to them that believed not?

3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering

into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the

word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them

that heard it.

4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have

sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works

were finished from the foundation of the world.

4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And

God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they

to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so

long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not

your hearts.

4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have

spoken of another day.

4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his

own works, as God did from his.

4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall

after the same example of unbelief.

4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any

twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and

spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts

and intents of the heart.

4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight:

but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we

have to do.

4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into

the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the

feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we

are, yet without sin.

4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may

obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in

things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices

for sins:

5:2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of

the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

5:3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for

himself, to offer for sins.

5:4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of

God, as was Aaron.

5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but

he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after

the order of Melchisedec.

5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and

supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to

save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which

he suffered;

5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation

unto all them that obey him;

5:10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing

ye are dull of hearing.

5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that

one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God;

and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of

righteousness: for he is a babe.

5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those

who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good

and evil.

6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us

go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance

from dead works, and of faith toward God,

6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of

resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.

6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have

tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to

come,

6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing

they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open

shame.

6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it,

and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth

blessing from God:

6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh

unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that

accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love,

which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the

saints, and do minister.

6:11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to

the full assurance of hope unto the end:

6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith

and patience inherit the promises.

6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no

greater, he sware by himself,

6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will

multiply thee.

6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

6:16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation

is to them an end of all strife.

6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of

promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to

lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay

hold upon the hope set before us:

6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and

stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high

priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God,

who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed

him;

7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by

interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem,

which is, King of peace;

7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither

beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God;

abideth a priest continually.

7:4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch

Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office

of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people

according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out

of the loins of Abraham:

7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of

Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them,

of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes

in Abraham.

7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met

him.

7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for

under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that

another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be

called after the order of Aaron?

7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a

change also of the law.

7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe,

of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe

Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of

Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after

the power of an endless life.

7:17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of

Melchisedec.

7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before

for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better

hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

7:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath

by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art

a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to

continue by reason of death:

7:24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable

priesthood.

7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come

unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,

undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up

sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this

he did once, when he offered up himself.

7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the

word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is

consecrated for evermore.

8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such

an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the

Majesty in the heavens;

8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the

Lord pitched, and not man.

8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:

wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that

there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses

was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for,

See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed

to thee in the mount.

8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also

he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon

better promises.

8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place

have been sought for the second.

8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith

the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and

with the house of Judah:

8:9 Not according to the covenant that 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.

8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel

after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind,

and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they

shall be to me a people:

8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his

brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to

the greatest.

8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and

their iniquities will I remember no more.

8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now

that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine

service, and a worldly sanctuary.

9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the

candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the

sanctuary.

9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the

Holiest of all;

9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid

round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and

Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which

we cannot now speak particularly.

9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always

into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not

without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the

people:

9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all

was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet

standing:

9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered

both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service

perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and

carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a

greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to

say, not of this building;

9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he

entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption

for us.

9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer

sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal

Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from

dead works to serve the living God?

9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by

means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under

the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of

eternal inheritance.

9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death

of the testator.

9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of

no strength at all while the testator liveth.

9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according

to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and

scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the

people,

9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined

unto you.

9:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the

vessels of the ministry.

9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without

shedding of blood is no remission.

9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the

heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things

themselves with better sacrifices than these.

9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,

which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear

in the presence of God for us:

9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest

entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the

world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away

sin by the sacrifice of himself.

9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the

judgment:

9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them

that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto

salvation.

10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the

very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they

offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the

worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins

every year.

10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should

take away sins.

10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and

offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no

pleasure.

10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of

me,) to do thy will, O God.

10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and

offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein;

which are offered by the law;

10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the

first, that he may establish the second.

10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the

body of Jesus Christ once for all.

10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering

oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for

ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are

sanctified.

10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he

had said before,

10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,

saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds

will I write them;

10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for

sin.

10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by

the blood of Jesus,

10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through

the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;

10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,

having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies

washed with pure water.

10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;

(for he is faithful that promised;)

10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good

works:

10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner

of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see

the day approaching.

10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge

of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery

indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three

witnesses:

10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought

worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the

blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and

hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I

will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his

people.

10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were

illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and

afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were

so used.

10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the

spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a

better and an enduring substance.

10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great

recompence of reward.

10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of

God, ye might receive the promise.

10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will

not tarry.

10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my

soul shall have no pleasure in him.

10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them

that believe to the saving of the soul.

11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of

things not seen.

11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.

11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word

of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do

appear.

11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than

Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying

of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was

not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he

had this testimony, that he pleased God.

11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that

cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them

that diligently seek him.

11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved

with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he

condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by

faith.

11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which

he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not

knowing whither he went.

11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange

country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with

him of the same promise:

11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and

maker is God.

11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive

seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she

judged him faithful who had promised.

11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so

many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by

the sea shore innumerable.

11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but

having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced

them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a

country.

11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence

they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:

wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath

prepared for them a city.

11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that

had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead;

from whence also he received him in a figure.

11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of

Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of

the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his

parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not

afraid of the king's commandment.

11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called

the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than

to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures

in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for

he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood,

lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the

Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed

about seven days.

11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed

not, when she had received the spies with peace.

11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of

Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and

Samuel, and of the prophets:

11:33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness,

obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.

11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out

of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight

the armies of the aliens.

11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were

tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better

resurrection:

11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea,

moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain

with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being

destitute, afflicted, tormented;

11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and

in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,

received not the promise:

11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us

should not be made perfect.

12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud

of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so

easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set

before us,

12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for

the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame,

and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against

himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as

unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor

faint when thou art rebuked of him:

12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son

whom he receiveth.

12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for

what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then

are ye bastards, and not sons.

12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us,

and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection

unto the Father of spirits, and live?

12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own

pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his

holiness.

12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but

grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of

righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be

turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man

shall see the Lord:

12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any

root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be

defiled;

12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for

one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the

blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though

he sought it carefully with tears.

12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that

burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice

they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any

more:

12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so

much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust

through with a dart:

12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear

and quake:)

12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living

God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are

written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of

just men made perfect,

12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of

sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.

12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not

who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if

we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised,

saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those

things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things

which cannot be shaken may remain.

12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us

have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly

fear:

12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

13:1 Let brotherly love continue.

13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have

entertained angels unawares.

13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which

suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but

whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with

such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor

forsake thee.

13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not

fear what man shall do unto me.

13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto

you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their

conversation.

13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a

good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats,

which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve

the tabernacle.

13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the

sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.