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gentiles, [3:2]if indeed you heard of the dispensation of the grace of

God given to me for you, [3:3]that by revelation the mystery was made

known to me,--as I wrote before in a few words, [3:4]by reading which

you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,-- [3:5]which

in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it

has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

[3:6]that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint

partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, [3:7]of

which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by

the operation of his power. [3:8]To me, who am the least of all saints,

was this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches

of Christ, [3:9]and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the

mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,

[3:10]that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly

[worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom

of God, [3:11]according to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ

Jesus our Lord, [3:12]in whom we have boldness and access with

confidence through faith in him.

7 [3:13]Wherefore I desire you not to faint on account of my

afflictions for you, which are your glory. [3:14]For this reason I bow

my knees to the Father, [3:15]of whom all the family in heaven and on

earth is named, [3:16]that he would grant to you according to the

riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit

in the inward man, [3:17]that Christ may dwell in your hearts through

the faith, you being founded and established in love, [3:18]that you

may be able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and

length, and depth and height, [3:19]and to know the love of Christ

which exceeds knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness

of God. [3:20]To him that is able to do far beyond all that we ask or

think, by the power which operates in us, [3:21]to him be the glory in

the church in Jesus Christ to all generations, for ever and ever; amen.

CHAPTER II.

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DUTIES.

1 [4:1]I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk

worthily of the call with which you were called, [4:2]with all humility

and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love,

[4:3]using diligence to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of

peace. [4:4]There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called

in one hope of your call; [4:5]one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

[4:6]one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in

all. [4:7]And to each one of us is given grace according to the measure

of the gift of Christ.

2 [4:8]Wherefore he says, When he ascended on high, he took captivity

captive, and gave gifts to men. [4:9]But this, that he ascended, what

is it but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

[4:10]He that descended is the same also that ascended above all

heavens, that he might fill all [places]. [4:11]And he gave some

apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and

teachers, [4:12]for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the

ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ, [4:13]till we all

come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,

to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of

Christ, [4:14] that we may be no longer children, driven about like

waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men,

and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, [4:15]but speaking the truth

with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

[4:16]by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the

supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of

every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in

love.

3 [4:17]This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer

walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,

[4:18]with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of

God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the

hardness of their hearts, [4:19] who being without feeling have given

themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

[4:20]But you have not so learned Christ, [4:21]if you have indeed

heard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus,

[4:22]that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man

destroyed by deceitful desires, [4:23]and be renewed in the spirit of

your minds, [4:24] and put on the new man, created after God in

righteousness and true holiness.

4 [4:25]Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to

his neighbor, for we are members one of another. [4:26]Be angry and

sin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath, [4:27]neither give

place to the devil. [4:28]Let him that has stolen steal no more, but

rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he

may have to give to him that needs. [4:29]Let no evil word proceed out

of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it

may afford benefit to those that hear. [4:30]And grieve not the Holy

Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption.

[4:31]Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and

blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice. [4:32]But be

kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in

Christ gave to you. [5:1]Be therefore followers of God, as dear

children, [5:2]and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave

himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.

5 [5:3]Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named

among you, as becomes saints, [5:4]nor indecorum and foolish talking,

or jesting, things not becoming, but rather giving of thanks. [5:5]For

you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who

is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

[5:6]Let no man deceive you with vain words; for on account of these

comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience. [5:7]Be not

therefore partakers with them. [5:8]For you were formerly darkness, but

now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,-- [5:9]for

the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and

truth,-- [5:10]proving what is well pleasing to the Lord, [5:11]and be

not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove

them. [5:12] For the things which are done by them in secret it is base

even to mention; [5:13]but all things proved to be wrong are made

manifest by the light; for every thing which makes manifest is light.

[5:14]Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead,

and Christ shall give you light.

6 [5:15]See then that you walk discreetly, not as unwise but as wise,

[5:16] redeeming the time, because the days are evil. [5:17]Be not

foolish therefore, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

[5:18]And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled

with the spirit, [5:19]speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and

spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,

[5:20]giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus

Christ to the God and Father, [5:21]being subject one to another in the

fear of Christ. [5:22]Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to

the Lord, [5:23]for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ

is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body. [5:24]But as

the church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to

husbands in every thing. [5:25] Husbands, love your wives as Christ

also loved the church and gave himself for it, [5:26]that he might

sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word,

[5:27]that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having

a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy

and blameless. [5:28]Husbands ought to love their wives as their own

bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; [5:29]for no one ever

hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the

church; [5:30]for we are members of his body. [5:31]For this cause a

man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and

they two shall be one flesh. [5:32]This is a great mystery; but I speak

of Christ and the church. [5:33]But do you also, individually, each one

so love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the

husband.

7 [6:1]Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

[6:2]Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment

with a promise, [6:3]that it may be well with you, and you shall live

long in the land. [6:4] And, fathers, provoke not your children, but

bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

8 [6:5]Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with

fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,

[6:6]not with eye service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ

doing the will of God from the heart, [6:7]performing service kindly as

to the Lord and not to men, [6:8] knowing that whatever good each one

does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a

freeman. [6:9]And, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing

threatening, knowing also that their master and yours is in heaven, and

there is no respect of persons with him.

9 [6:10]Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

[6:11] Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand

against the wiles of the devil; [6:12]for our conflict is not against

flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against

the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual

[hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds]. [6:13] Take therefore the

whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and

having done all to stand. [6:14]Stand, therefore, girded about your

loins with truth, and having put on the cuirass of righteousness,

[6:15] and bound your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

[6:16]over all, taking the shield of the faith, with which you may be

able to extinguish all the fiery darts of evil. [6:17]And take the

helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of

God, [6:18]praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion

with the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and

supplication for all the saints, [6:19]and for me, that a word may be

given me at the opening of my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of

the gospel, [6:20]in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds,

that I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.

10 [6:21]But that you may also know the things concerning me, how I do,

Tichycus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will

inform you of all things; [6:22]whom I have sent to you for this

purpose, that you may know the things concerning us and that he may

comfort your hearts. [6:23]Peace and love be to the brothers with

faith, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. [6:24]The grace

be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with constancy.

THE EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS.

ROME, A.D. 63. (ACTS, 25:4.)

CHAPTER I.

PAUL'S LOVE FOR THE PHILIPPIANS, AFFAIRS AT ROME, MORAL DUTIES, ETC.

1 [1:1]PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in

Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. [1:2]Grace be

to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 [1:3]I thank my God at 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 till now, [1:6]having this

same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it

on till the day of Jesus Christ, [1:7]as it is right for me to think

this of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and

in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you being all partakers

of my grace. [1:8]For God is my witness, how much I desire you all

with the tender affections of Christ Jesus. [1:9]And this I pray, that

your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all

understanding, [1:10]that you may prove the excellent, that you may be

without fault and without offense in the day of Christ, [1:11]filled

with the fruit of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and

praise of God.

3 [1:12]But I wish you to know, brothers, that the things as to me have

resulted in the advancement of the gospel, [1:13]so that my bonds in

Christ are manifest in all the Praetorium and in all other places,

[1:14]and many of the brothers having been made confident by my bonds

in the Lord have more abundant courage to speak the word without fear.

[1:15]For some indeed preach Christ because of envy and strife, and

some also because of good will; [1:17]those from love, knowing that I

am set for the defense of the gospel, [1:16]but those from contention

preach Christ not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for my

bonds. [1:18]What then? nevertheless, in every way, whether in

pretence or in truth, Christ is preached, and in this I rejoice. But I

also will rejoice; [1:19]for I know that this will result in salvation

to me, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus

Christ, [1:20]according to my expectation and hope that I shall be

ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ

shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

[1:21]Because for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. [1:22]But if

to live in the flesh [is allowed me], I have this fruit of my work, and

which I shall choose I know not. [1:23]But I am in a strait between

the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far

better; [1:24]but to continue in the flesh is more necessary for you.

[1:25]And fully believing this, I know that I shall continue, and

continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of the faith,

[1:26]that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my

coming again to you.

4 [1:27]Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of

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

your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with

one mind for the faith of the gospel, [1:28]terrified in nothing by the

adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of

salvation, and this from God; [1:29]because it was given to you in

behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for

him, [1:30]having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear of

in me.

5 [2:1]If therefore there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort

in love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and

compassions, [2:2] fulfil my joy, that you have the same mind, having

the same love, sympathizing with each other, having one opinion.

[2:3]Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each

esteem others better than himself, [2:4]and let each consider not his

own interests, but also those 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 a robbery to be equal with God; [2:7]but he abased

himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of

man, [2:8]and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and

became obedient even till death, and the death of the cross.

[2:9]Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which

is above every name, [2:10]that at the name of Jesus every knee shall

bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth,

[2:11]and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the

glory of God the Father.

6 [2:12]And so, my beloved, as you always obeyed, not in my presence

only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with

fear and trembling; [2:13]for God works in you both to will and to work

of his good pleasure. [2:14]Do all things without complainings and

disputations, [2:15]that you may be blameless and sincere, children of

God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in

which you shine as luminaries in the world, [2:16]holding fast the word

of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in

vain, nor labor in vain. [2:17]But if I am even poured out as a

libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and

congratulate you all; [2:18]do you also rejoice with the same joy and

congratulate me.

7 [2:19]But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly,

that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs. [2:20]For I have no

one like minded who really will care for your interests; [2:21]for all

seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. [2:22]But you know his

tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the

gospel. [2:23]Him therefore I hope to send to you as soon as I know how

it will be with me; [2:24]and I hope in the Lord that I also myself

shall come shortly.

8 [2:25]But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, the

brother and my fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, but your apostle and

servant of my need, [2:26]for he greatly desired you all and was

anxious, because you heard that he was sick. [2:27]For indeed he was

sick nigh to 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 have sent

him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him again you may

rejoice and I be less sorrowful. [2:29]Receive him therefore in the

Lord with all joy, and have such in estimation, [2:30]because on

account of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly

for his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.

CHAPTER II.

JUDAIZING TEACHERS, EXHORTATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ETC.

1 [3:1]FINALLY, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord; for to write the same

things to you is not grievous to me, and is safe for you. [3:2]Beware

of the dogs, beware of evil laborers, beware of the concision. [3:3]We

are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ

Jesus, and trust not in the flesh, [3:4]although I have ground of

confidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks he may trust in the

flesh, I [may] more; [3:5]circumcised the eighth day, of the race of

Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, as to the

law a Pharisee, [3:6]as to zeal persecuting the church, as to

righteousness by the law being blameless. [3:7]But whatever things were

my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ.

[3:8]But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on

account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for

whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them

worthless that I may gain Christ [3:9]and be found in him, not having

my righteousness by the law, but that which is through the faith of

Christ, the righteousness of God by the faith, [3:10]that I may know

him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his

sufferings, being conformed to his death, [3:11]that I may attain the

resurrection from the dead. [3:12]Not that I have already obtained it,

or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain

that for which also I was arrested by Christ. [3:13]I consider not

myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do;

forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,

[3:14]I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God

in Christ Jesus. [3:15]Let us, as many as are perfect therefore, be of

this mind; and if any one thinks at all otherwise, God shall also

reveal this to you; [3:16]but in what we have attained, in this let us

walk.

2 [3:17]Be followers of me, brothers, and observe those who walk so as

you have us for an example. [3:18]For many walk, of whom I told you

often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross

of Christ; [3:19]whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach,

and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things. [3:20]But

our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the

Lord Jesus Christ, [3:21]who will change our humble body, and make it

like his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to

subject all things to himself. [4:1]So, my beloved and much desired

brothers, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, beloved.

3 [4:2]I beseech Euodias and I beseech Syntyche to have the same mind

in the Lord. [4:3]Yes, I beseech you also, faithful yoke-fellow, help

those women who strove in the gospel with me, with Clement and the rest

of my co-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

4 [4:4]Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. [4:5]Let your

gentleness be known to all men; the Lord is near. [4:6]Be anxious for

nothing, but with all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let

your requests be made known to God. [4:7]And may the peace of God which

passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

5 [4:8]Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are

honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever

things are lovely, whatever things are reputable, if there is any

virtue, and if there is any praise, consider these things; [4:9]and

what you learned and received and heard and knew in me, these things

do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

6 [4:10]But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began

again to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no

opportunity [to serve me]. [4:11]Not that I speak of want; for I have

learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented. [4:12]I know

both how to be humbled, and I know how to abound; in every thing and in

all conditions I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both

to abound and to suffer want. [4:13]I endure all things with him that

strengthens me. [4:14]But you did well to communicate with my

affliction, [4:15]And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning

of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated

with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;

[4:16]for even in Thessalonica and once and again you sent to my need.

[4:17]Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to

your account. [4:18]But I have all things and abound, I am fully

supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a

perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

[4:19]And God shall fully supply all your need, according to his riches

in glory in Christ Jesus. [4:20]To our God and Father be the glory

forever and ever; amen.

7 [4:21]Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me salute

you. [4:22]All the saints salute you, especially those of Caesar's

family. [4:23] The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

THE EPISTLE TO TITUS.

PHILIPPI, A.D. 64.

CHAPTER I.

A CHARGE TO TITUS IN RESPECT TO HIS MINISTRY.

1 [1:1]PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,

according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth

which is according to piety, [1:2]for the hope of eternal life, which

God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages, [1:3]but manifested

his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with

which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,

[1:4]to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from

God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

2 [1:5]For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate

things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I

charged you, [1:6]if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife,

having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of

insubordination. [1:7]For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of

God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not

contentious, not devoted to base gain, [1:8]but a lover of hospitality,

kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying, [1:9]holding firmly the faithful

word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction

and to convince those who contradict. [1:10]For there are many

disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the

circumcision, [1:11]whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole

families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.

3 [1:12]A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always

liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers. [1:13]This testimony is true.

Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

[1:14]not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who

subvert the truth. [1:15]To the pure all things are pure; but to the

defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience

are defiled. [1:16]They profess to know God, but by works deny him,

being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.

4 [2:1]Speak things which become sound teaching. [2:2]That the aged men

be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

[2:3]that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming

holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what

is good, [2:4]that they may instruct the young women to be lovers of

their husbands, lovers of their children, [2:5]sober, pure, fond of

home, kind, subject to their husbands, that the word of God may not be

blasphemed.

5 [2:6]In like manner exhort the younger to be of a sound mind, [2:7]

presenting yourself as an example of good works in all things, in

teaching [exhibiting] integrity, gravity, [2:8]sound argument not to be

condemned, that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to

say of us. [2:9]Let servants be subject to their masters, please them

in all things, not contradicting, [2:10]not pilfering, but showing all

good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in

all things.

6 [2:11]For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all

men, [2:12]teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we

should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

[2:13]looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the

great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, [2:14]who gave himself for

us, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself

a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

7 [2:15]These things speak, and exhort, and reprove with all authority;

let no man despise you. [3:1]Admonish them to be subject to

principalities, to powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every

good work, [3:2]to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle,

showing all meekness to all men. [3:3]For we formerly were foolish,

disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in

malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another; [3:4] but when the

goodness and philanthropy of the Saviour our God appeared, [3:5] not by

works of righteousness which we did but according to his mercy he saved

us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy

Spirit, [3:6]which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our

Saviour; [3:7] that having been justified by his grace we should become

heirs according to the hope of eternal life. [3:8]The word is true,

and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those

who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For

these things are honorable and useful to men. [3:9]But foolish

questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law,

avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain. [3:10]A man that is a

heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject, [3:11]knowing

that such a one is subverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

8 [3:12]When I send you Artemas, or Tychicus, make haste to come to me

at Nicopolis; for there I have determined to spend the winter.

[3:13]Send forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos with diligence, and let

nothing be wanting to them; [3:14]and let ours also learn to maintain

good works for necessary purposes, that they may not be unfruitful.

[3:15]All who are with me salute you. Salute those who love us in the

faith. The grace be with you all.

FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY.

PHILIPPI, A.D. 65.

CHAPTER I.

A CHARGE TO TIMOTHY CONCERNING THE GOSPEL, PUBLIC PRAYER, AND THE

DUTIES OF WOMEN.

1 [1:1]PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our

Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope, [1:2]to Timothy my true son in the

faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our

Lord.

2 [1:3]As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into

Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine,

[1:4]nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion

disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.] [1:5]But the

end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience

and faith unfeigned, [1:6]which some having missed turned aside to vain

words, [1:7]desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what

they say nor about what they make confident assertions. [1:8] But we

know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully; [1:9]knowing this,

that a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and

disorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers

of fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men,

[1:10]fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and

whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, [1:11]according to the

glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.

[1:12]And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to

preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,

[1:13]who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious

man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in

unbelief; [1:14]and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the

faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. [1:15]The word is true and

worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to

save sinners, of whom I am chief; [1:16]but on this account I obtained

mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering,

for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life

eternal. [1:17]And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only

God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen.

3 [1:18]This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the

prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may

perform an honorable service, [1:19]having faith and a good conscience,

which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;

[1:20]of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan,

that they may learn not to blaspheme.

4 [2:1]I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers,

intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men, [2:2]for

kings and all in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives

in all piety and sanctity. [2:3]For this is good and acceptable in the

sight of God our Saviour, [2:4]who wishes all men to be saved and to

come to a knowledge of truth. [2:5] For there is one God, and one

mediator of God and man, the man Christ Jesus, [2:6]who gave himself a

ransom for all, a testimony for its own times, [2:7]of which I was made

a herald and an apostle,--I speak the truth, I lie not,--a teacher of

nations in faith and truth.

5 [2:8]I wish also that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy

hands, without wrath and disputations; [2:9]and in like manner also,

that women in becoming apparel with modesty and sobriety adorn

themselves, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly

clothing, [2:10]but with good works, which become women professing

godliness. [2:11]Let a woman learn quietly in all subjection; [2:12]but

I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man, but to

be quiet. [2:13]For Adam was first formed, then Eve. [2:14]And Adam

was not deceived; but the woman being deceived fell into transgression;

[2:15]but she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in

faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.

CHAPTER II.

THE APPOINTMENT OF MINISTERS, THE DOCTRINES OF THE GOSPEL, WIDOWS,

ELDERS, SERVANTS, ETC.

1 [3:1]IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires

a good work. [3:2]It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be

blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved,

hospitable, apt to teach, [3:3]not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome

man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious, [3:4]ruling well his

own house, having his children in subjection with all dignity,--

[3:5]but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how will he

take care of the church of God?-- [3:6]not a novice, lest being

inflated with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. [3:7]

And he must also have a good name from those without, that he may not

fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

2 [3:8]The deacons in like manner ought to be grave, not

double-tongued, not given to much wine, not devoted to base gain,

[3:9]having the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. [3:10]And

let these be proved first, then let them serve, being found blameless.

[3:11]The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers,

circumspect, faithful in all things. [3:12]Let the deacons be husbands

of one wife, ruling well their children and their own houses. [3:13]

For they who exercise the deaconship well, procure for themselves an

honorable standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ

Jesus.

3 [3:14]These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;

[3:15]but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct

yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God,

the pillar and foundation of the truth. [3:16]And confessedly great is

the mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was

justified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the

nations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.

4 [4:1]But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall

apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of

demons, [4:2][misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose

consciences are cauterized, [4:3]who forbid to marry, [command] to

abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving

by the faithful and those who know the truth. [4:4]For every creature

of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with

thanksgiving; [4:5]for it is sanctified through the word of God and

prayer.

5 [4:6]Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good

minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the

good instruction which you have followed; [4:7]but avoid profane and

silly myths; exercise yourself in piety; [4:8]for bodily exercise

profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise

of the present life and of the life to come. [4:9]It is a faithful

saying, and worthy of all acceptation. [4:10] For to this end we also

labor and suffer reproach, because we hope in the living God, who is

the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

6 [4:11]These things command and teach. [4:12]Let no one despise your

youth, but be an example to the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love,

in faith, in purity. [4:13]Till I come attend to reading, exhortation,

teaching. [4:14] Neglect not the gift which is in you, which was given

you by prophecy, with the imposition of hands of the eldership.

[4:15]Study these things, be much in them, that your improvement may be

manifest to all. [4:16]Attend to yourself, and to teaching; continue

in it, for doing this you will both save yourself and those that hear

you.

7 [5:1]Rebuke not an aged man, but entreat him as a father, the younger

men as brothers, [5:2]the aged women as mothers, the younger as

sisters, with all purity. [5:3]Support the widows who are widows

indeed. [5:4]But if any widow has children or relatives, let them learn

first to support their family and to make returns to their parents, for

this is acceptable in the sight of God. [5:5] But one that is a widow

indeed and alone hopes in God, and continues in petitions and prayers

night and day; [5:6]but a woman that lives voluptuously is dead while

she lives. [5:7]And command these things, that they be blameless.

[5:8]And if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those

of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an

unbeliever.

8 [5:9]Let not a widow be enrolled under sixty years of age, a wife of

one husband, [5:10]well reputed for good works, if she has brought up

children, if she has exercised hospitality, if she has washed the

saints' feet, if she has relieved the distressed, if she has pursued

every good work. [5:11]But reject the younger widows; for when they

fall into pleasure to the neglect of Christ, they wish to marry,

[5:12]being condemned because they have rejected the first faith;

[5:13]and at the same time also, being idle, they learn to go from

house to house, and not only are they idle, they are also tattlers and

mischief makers, saying what they ought not. [5:14]I wish therefore the

younger women to marry, bear children, keep house, give no occasion of

reproach to the enemy; [5:15]for some have already turned back after

Satan. [5:16]If any faithful man or faithful woman has widows, let

them give them relief, and let not the church be burdened, that it may

be able to relieve those really widows.

9 [5:17]Let the elders who rule well be accounted worthy of a double

compensation, especially those who labor in word and teaching.

[5:18]For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox that

threshes; and, The laborer is worthy of his reward. [5:19]Against an

elder receive not an accusation, except by two or three witnesses.

[5:20]Those that sin, rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

10 [5:21]I charge you before God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect

angels, that you keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing

from partiality. [5:22] Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither partake

of others' sins. Keep yourself pure. [5:23]Drink no longer water, but

use a little wine on account of your stomach and your frequent

infirmities. [5:24]The sins of some men are manifest, going before to

judgment; but some they follow; [5:25]in like manner also good works

are manifest, and those which are otherwise cannot be hid.

11 [6:1]Let as many servants as are under the yoke account their

masters worthy of all honor, that the name and doctrine of God may not

be blasphemed. [6:2]And let those who have believing masters not

despise them, because they are brothers, but rather serve, because they

are believers and beloved, who partake of the benefit.

12 These things teach and exhort. [6:3]If any one teaches differently,

and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and the doctrine which is according to piety, [6:4]he is blinded and

knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words,

from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

[6:5]and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the

truth, supposing that piety is gain. [6:6]But piety with contentment is

great gain. [6:7]For we brought nothing into the world; it is clear

that we can carry nothing out of it; [6:8]but having food and clothing

let us be contented with them. [6:9]But those who wish to be rich fall

into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which

plunge men into destruction and perdition. [6:10]For the love of money

is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from

the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

13 [6:11]But do you, O man of God, avoid these things; but pursue

righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness. [6:12]Fight the

good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were

called and made the good profession before many witnesses. [6:13]I

charge you before the God who gives life to all [creatures], and Christ

Jesus who made the good profession before Pontius Pilate, [6:14]that

you keep the charge without spot, without blame, till the appearing of

our Lord Jesus Christ, [6:15]which the blessed and only Potentate will

show in its times, the King of kings and Lord of Lords, [6:16]who only

has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no man has seen

nor can see; to whom be honor and power eternal; amen.

14 [6:17]Charge the rich in the present life not to be high-minded, nor

trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us all

things richly to enjoy, [6:18]to perform good works, to be rich in good

works, to be liberal, benevolent, [6:19]treasuring up for themselves a

good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the true life.

15 [6:20]O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty

words, and contradictions of mis-named science, [6:21]which some having

professed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.

SECOND EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY.

ROME, A.D. 65.

CHAPTER I.

INFORMATION, ADMONITION, ETC.

1 [1:1]PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according

to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, [1:2]to Timothy my beloved son.

Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 [1:3]I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure

conscience, that I mention you incessantly in my prayers night and day,

[1:4]desiring to see you, remembering your tears, that I might be

filled with joy, [1:5]having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith in

you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother

Eunice, and I am persuaded that [it dwells] also in you. [1:6]For which

cause I admonish you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through

the imposition of my hands. [1:7]For God gave us not a spirit of fear,

but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

3 [1:8]Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me

his prisoner, but endure affliction with us in the gospel according to

the power of God, [1:9]who saved us, and called us with a holy calling,

not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace

given us in Christ Jesus from eternity, [1:10]but made known now

through the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who destroyed death,

and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, [1:11]of

which I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the

nations; [1:12]for which cause I suffer these things; but I am not

ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he

is able to keep my trust to that day.

4 [1:13]Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith

and the love in Christ Jesus. [1:14]Guard the good trust, through the

Holy Spirit which dwells in us. [1:15]You know this, that all those in

Asia left me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. [1:16]May the Lord

show mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and

was not ashamed of my chains, [1:17] but being at Rome he sought most

diligently, and found me. [1:18]The Lord grant him to find mercy with

the Lord in that day. And what services he performed at Ephesus, you

know very well.

5 [2:1]Do you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace in Christ

Jesus, [2:2] and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these

things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others

also. [2:3]Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. [2:4]No one

who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he

may please him who has employed him as a soldier. [2:5]And if a man

contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.

[2:6]The husbandman who labors must first partake of the fruits of the

earth. [2:7]Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give you

understanding in all things.

6 [2:8]Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead, a descendant of

David, according to my gospel, [2:9]in which I suffer even to chains as

an evil doer; but the word of God is not bound. [2:10]Therefore I

endure all things for the elect, that they may obtain the salvation in

Christ Jesus with eternal glory. [2:11]The saying is true, For if we

died together we shall live together; [2:12]if we endure patiently we

shall reign together; if we deny him he will deny us; [2:13]if we

believe not he continues faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

7 [2:14]Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not

to debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.

[2:15]Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a workman that

will not be put to shame, rightly dividing the word of truth. [2:16]But

profane and vain words, avoid; for they greatly increase impiety,

[2:17]and their word will eat like a gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus

and Philetus, [2:18]who have erred from the truth, saying that the

resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

[2:19]But the foundation of God stands firm, having this seal, The Lord

knows them that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of the

Lord depart from wickedness. [2:20]But in a great house there are not

only vessels of gold and silver, but those also of wood and clay, and

some for honor and some for dishonor; [2:21]if therefore any one

purifies himself from these [errors], he shall be a vessel for honor,

sanctified, of good use to the master, prepared for every good work.

8 [2:22]But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith,

love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

[2:23]But foolish and trifling disputes avoid, knowing that they

produce contentions; [2:24]and the servant of the Lord must not

contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

[2:25]in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a

change of mind to a knowledge of the truth, [2:26]and that they may

recover themselves from the snare of the devil, who are made captives

by him to his will.

CHAPTER II.

THE LAST TIME, HIS APPROACHING MARTYRDOM, ETC.

1 [3:1]AND know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

[3:2] Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers,

disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3:3]without natural

affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle,

despisers of the good, [3:4]traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of

pleasure more than lovers of God, [3:5]having a form of piety but

denying its power; and these avoid. [3:6]Of these are those who go into

the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by

various desires, [3:7]always learning and never able to come to a

knowledge of the truth. [3:8]As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so

also these oppose the truth, men of no judgment, reprobate in respect

to the faith. [3:9]But they shall proceed no further; for their

foolishness shall become manifest to all, as theirs also was. [3:10]But

you have followed my instruction,--mode of life, purpose, faith,

long-suffering, love, patience, [3:11]persecutions, sufferings, which

befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions

which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all. [3:12]And all who

will live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted. [3:13]But evil

men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being

deceived. [3:14]But do you continue in what you learned and understood,

knowing from whom you learned, [3:15]and that from a child you have

known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation

through faith in Christ Jesus. [3:16]All Scripture is divinely inspired

and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for

education in righteousness, [3:17]that the man of God may be perfect,

thoroughly fitted for every good work.

2 [4:1]I earnestly charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is about

to judge the living and dead, and [by] his appearing and his kingdom,

[4:2]preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove,

rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction; [4:3]for the

time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will

accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing

their ear, [4:4]and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and

be turned to myths. [4:5]But do you be sober in all things, endure

evil, do the work of an evangelist, perform fully your ministry. [4:6]

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

[4:7]I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have

kept the faith; [4:8]henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of

righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that

day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

3 [4:9]Make haste to come to me quickly; [4:10]for Demas forsook me

having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to

Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia; [4:11]Luke only is with me. Take Mark and

bring him with you; for [he will be] useful to me for service.

[4:12]But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. [4:13] The cloak which I left at

Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring, and the books, especially the

parchments.

4 [4:14]Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm; may the Lord reward

him according to his work. [4:15]And do you beware of him, for he

greatly opposed our words. [4:16]At my first defense no one stood by

me, but all forsook me; may it not be set to their account; [4:17]but

the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the word should be

fully declared by me, and all the nations should hear, and I was

delivered from the mouth of the lion. [4:18]The Lord will deliver me

from every evil work, and bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom; to

whom be the glory forever and ever; amen.

5 [4:19]Salute Prisca [Priscilla] and Aquila and the house of

Onesiphorus. [4:20]Erastus remained at Corinth, and Trophimus I left

sick at Miletus. [4:21] Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and

Pudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers, salute you.

[4:22]The Lord be with your spirit. The grace be with you.

THE CATHOLIC EPISTLES.

THE EPISTLE OF JAMES.

JERUSALEM, A.D. 61-66.

CHAPTER I.

TRIALS, PRAYER, FAITH AND WORKS.

1 [1:1]JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the

twelve tribes in the dispersion, greeting. [1:2]Account it all joy, my

brothers, when you fall into various trials, [1:3]knowing that the

trial of your faith produces patience. [1:4]But let patience have a

perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

[1:5]And if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives

to all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given him. [1:6]But

let him ask in faith, not doubting; for he that doubts is like a wave

of the sea, driven with the wind and agitated. [1:7]For let not that

man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord, [1:8]a

double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. [1:9]But let the brother

that is humble rejoice in his exaltation, [1:10]and the rich in his

humiliation, for he shall pass away like a flower of the grass.

[1:11]For the sun rose hot, and withered the grass, and its flower fell

off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also shall the rich

man perish in his ways.

2 [1:12]Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall

receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love

him. [1:13]Let no tempted one say, I am tempted by God; for God is not

subject to temptation by evils, and he tempts no one. [1:14]But every

one is tempted when he is drawn away by his desires, and enticed;

[1:15]then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being

finished brings forth death.

3 [1:16]Be not deceived, my beloved brothers. [1:17]All good giving,

and every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of

lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning. [1:18]Of his

own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of

first fruit of his creatures.

4 [1:19]Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to

hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; [1:20]for man's anger performs not

God's righteousness. [1:21]Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and

abounding vice, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able

to save your souls. [1:22]But be doers of the word, and not hearers

only, deceiving yourselves. [1:23]For if any one is a hearer of the

word and not a doer, he is like a man perceiving his natural face in a

glass; [1:24]for he perceived himself, and went away, and immediately

forgot what kind of a man he was. [1:25]But he that looks into the

perfect law of liberty and continues in it, not being a forgetful

hearer but a doer of work, he shall be blessed in his doing. [1:26]But

if any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his

tongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain. [1:27]Pure

religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the

orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self

unspotted from the world.

5 [2:1]My brothers, have not the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus

Christ with a respect of persons. [2:2]For if there comes into your

assembly a man with a gold ring, in splendid clothing, and there also

comes in a poor man in vile clothing, [2:3]and you look upon him who

wears the splendid clothing, and say to him, Sit here in a good place,

and say to the poor man, Stand there, or sit under my footstool,

[2:4]are you not condemned in yourselves and judges of evil thoughts?

6 [2:5]Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the

world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those

who love him? [2:6] But you dishonor the poor. Do not the rich oppress

you and drag you to tribunals? [2:7]And do they not blaspheme the good

name by which you are called? [2:8]If you keep indeed the royal law

according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself,

you do well; [2:9]but if you respect persons, you commit sin, convicted

by the law as transgressors. [2:10]For whoever shall keep the whole

law, and offend in one point, is guilty of all. [2:11]For he that said,

You shall not commit adultery, said also, You shall not kill; and if

you do not commit adultery, but kill, you are a transgressor of the

law. [2:12]So speak and so do, as being about to be judged by the law

of liberty. [2:13]For he shall have judgment without mercy who shows

not mercy; mercy rejoices over judgment.

7 [2:14]What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith,

but has not works? Can faith save him? [2:15]And if a brother or sister

is naked, or destitute of daily food, [2:16]and one of you says to

them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the

necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit? [2:17]So also

faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone. [2:18]But some one

will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without

works, and I will show you my faith by works. [2:19]You believe that

there is one God? You do well; demons also believe and tremble.

[2:20]But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

[2:21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered

up Isaac his son on the altar? [2:22]You see that faith cooperated with

his works, and by works was faith made perfect, [2:23]and the Scripture

was fulfilled which says, And Abraham believed God and it was accounted

to him a righteousness, and he was called God's friend. [2:24]You see

then that a man is justified by works and not by faith only. [2:25]And

in like manner also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when

she received the messengers and sent them out another way? [2:26]For as

the body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

CHAPTER II.

ON CENSORIOUSNESS, WISDOM, CONTENTION, ETC.

1 [3:1]BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall

receive a severer judgment. [3:2]For in many things we all offend; if

one offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection

also the whole body. [3:3]But we put bits into the mouths of horses

that they may obey us, and direct their whole body; [3:4]behold also

the ships, though of so great size and driven by powerful winds, are

directed by a very small helm wherever the will of the pilot chooses;

[3:5]so also the tongue is a small member and boasts of great things.

Behold, how much wood a little fire kindles! [3:6]And the tongue is a

fire, the tongue is made a world of wickedness among our members, it

defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and is set

on fire by hell. [3:7]For every kind of beasts, and birds, and

reptiles, and fishes, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race,

[3:8]but the tongue can no man tame; it is a disorderly evil, full of a

deadly poison. [3:9]With it bless we the Lord and Father, and with it

curse we men made in the likeness of God. [3:10]Out of the same mouth

proceeds a blessing and a curse. My brothers, these things ought not so

to be. [3:11]Does a fountain send forth sweet water and bitter from

the same opening? [3:12]Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or

a vine, figs? So you cannot make salt water sweet.

2 [3:13]What wise and intelligent man is there among you? Let him show

his works by good conduct, in the meekness of wisdom. [3:14]But if you

have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not

against the truth. [3:15]This wisdom comes not from above, but is

earthly, natural, demoniacal. [3:16]For where envy and strife are,

there are disorder and every evil work. [3:17]But the wisdom from above

is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be persuaded, full of

mercy and of good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

[3:18]And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make

peace.

3 [4:1]Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not

thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? [4:2]You desire

and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and

carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask; [4:3]you ask and do

not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.

[4:4]Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is

enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the

world, is made an enemy of God. [4:5]Or do you suppose that the

Scripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy?

[4:6]But he gives more grace; wherefore he says, God resists the proud,

but gives grace to the humble. [4:7]Be subject therefore to God; resist

the devil and he will flee from you; [4:8]draw nigh to God and he will

draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts,

double-minded. [4:9]Lament, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be

turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. [4:10]Humble

yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

4 [4:11]Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks

against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and

judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law,

but a judge. [4:12]There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to

save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?

5 [4:13]Come now, you that say, To-day and to-morrow we will go to such

a city and engage in business there a year, and trade and make profits,

[4:14]who know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life?

You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes away;

[4:15]for you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall both live and

do this or that. [4:16]But now you glory in your boasting; all such

glorying is evil. [4:17]He therefore that knows how to do good and does

it not, to him it is sin.

6 [5:1]Come now, rich men, weep and lament for the miseries which are

coming upon you. [5:2]Your riches have decayed, and your garments are

moth-eaten, [5:3]your gold and silver are destroyed with rust, and

their rust will be a witness against you, and consume your flesh like

fire. You have laid up treasures for the last days. [5:4]Behold, the

wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry,

and the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the

Lord of sabaoth. [5:5]You have lived in luxury on the earth and in

pleasure, you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

[5:6]You have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you.

7 [5:7]Wait patiently therefore, brothers, till the coming of the Lord.

Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and

is of long patience, till he receives the autumnal and vernal rain.

[5:8]Do you also have long patience, confirm your hearts, for the

coming of the Lord is at hand. [5:9] Complain not, brothers, against

one another, that you be not judged; behold, the judge stands before

the doors. [5:10]You have the prophets who spoke in the name of the

Lord, my brothers, as an example of patience and long-suffering.

[5:11]Behold, we account them blessed who are patient. You have heard

of the patience of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, that he

is very merciful and compassionate.

8 [5:12]Above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven,

nor the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your

no, no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

9 [5:13]If any one among you is afflicted, let him pray; if any one is

happy, let him sing psalms; [5:14]if any one is sick among you, let him

send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing

him with oil in the name of the Lord. [5:15]And the prayer of faith

shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has

committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. [5:16]Confess your faults

one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for

the prayer of the righteous operates with great power. [5:17]Elijah was

a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain,

and it rained not on the land for three years and six months; [5:18]

and again he prayed, and heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded her

fruit.

10 [5:19]Brothers, if any one among you errs from the truth, and one

converts him, [5:20]let him know that he who converts a sinner from an

error of [his] way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude

of sins.

FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER.

BABYLON, A.D. 64.

CHAPTER I.

A FIRM ADHERENCE TO CHRIST, ETC.

1 [1:1]PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers of the

dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

[1:2]according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by

sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and the sprinkling of the

blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

2 [1:3]Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in

his great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the

resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [1:4]to an inheritance

incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you

[1:5]who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready

to be revealed in the last time. [1:6]In which you rejoice, though now

for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials, [1:7]that

the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is

destroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and

honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ, [1:8]whom not having seen you

love, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy

unspeakable and glorious, [1:9] receiving the end of the faith, the

salvation of souls. [1:10]Concerning which salvation the prophets also

who prophesied concerning the grace [bestowed] on us inquired

diligently and sought, [1:11]inquiring as to what person or what time

the Spirit of Christ which was in them signified, when it declared

before the sufferings of Christ and after these the glories, [1:12]to

whom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us

those things which have now been declared to you by those who preached

to you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which

the angels desire to look.

3 [1:13]Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and

hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of

Jesus Christ. [1:14]As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to

the desires of your former ignorance, [1:15]but as he that called you

is holy be you also holy in all [your] conduct, [1:16]because it is

written, Be you holy, for I am holy. [1:17]And if you call on the

Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's

work, spend the time of your life with fear, [1:18] knowing that you

were not redeemed from your vain mode of life received by tradition

from your fathers, with destructible things, silver or gold, [1:19] but

with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and

without a spot; [1:20]who was foreknown before the foundation of the

world, but made manifest in these last times for you, [1:21]who through

him believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory,

so that your faith and hope may be in God.

4 [1:22]Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned

brotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,

[1:23]having been born again, not from destructible seed but from

indestructible, through the word of God which lives and endures.

[1:24]For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of

the grass; the grass has withered, and its flower fell off; [1:25]but

the word of the Lord continues forever. And this is the word preached

to you.

5 [2:1]Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies

and envies and all evil speakings, [2:2]as new born babes desire

earnestly the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it to

salvation, [2:3]if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

[2:4]To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men but

approved by God, elect, precious, [2:5]do you also yourselves be built

up living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer

spiritual sacrifices well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ,

[2:6]for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief

corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be

ashamed. [2:7]To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the

disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head

of a corner [2:8]and a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, who

stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were

appointed. [2:9]But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy

nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him

who called you out of darkness into his glorious light; [2:10] who

formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not

obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

CHAPTER II.

PERSONAL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL DUTIES, ETC.

1 [2:11]BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from

carnal desires, which war against the soul, [2:12]having your conduct

honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as

evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in

the day of visitation.

2 [2:13]Be subject therefore to every human government, for the Lord's

sake, whether to the king, as superior, [2:14]to governors, sent by him

for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;

[2:15]for this is the will of God, that by well-doing you may silence

the ignorance of foolish men; [2:16]as free, and not using freedom for

a cloak of vice, but as servants of God. [2:17]Honor all men, love the

brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

3 [2:18]Let servants be subject with all fear to masters, not only to

the good and gentle but also to the perverse. [2:19]For this deserves

thanks, if on account of a knowledge of God one endures pain, suffering

unjustly. [2:20]For what glory is it if when you sin and are punished

you bear it patiently? But if you do well and suffer and bear it

patiently, [this deserves thanks], for it is acceptable to God.

[2:21]For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us,

leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps, [2:22]who

committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth, [2:23]who

being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed

himself to him that judges righteously, [2:24]who himself bore our sins

in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to

righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. [2:25]For you were

like lost sheep, but are now returned to the shepherd and bishop of

your souls.

4 [3:1]In like manner let the women be subject to their husbands, that

even if some disobey the word, they may be gained through the conduct

of their wives without the word, [3:2]seeing your pure mode of life in

the fear [of God]. [3:3]Whose ornament let it not be the external

[ornament] of braided hair and the putting on of chains of gold or of

clothing, [3:4]but let the hidden man of the heart be adorned with the

imperishable [ornaments] of a meek and quiet spirit, which are of great

price before God. [3:5]For so formerly also the holy women who hoped

in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands, [3:6]as

Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing

good and having no fear. [3:7]In like manner let the husbands [do],

living together in knowledge with the wife as with a vessel of less

strength, deeming them precious, co-heirs of the grace of life, that

your prayers may not be hindered.

5 [3:8]Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, loving as brothers,

compassionate, humble, [3:9]not returning evil for evil or railing for

railing, but on the contrary blessing [your enemies], because to this

you are called, that you may inherit blessing. [3:10]For he that will

love life and see good days, let him withhold his tongue from evil and

his lips from speaking deceit, [3:11]let him abstain from evil and do

good, let him seek peace and pursue it, [3:12]for the eyes of the Lord

are on the righteous and his ears attend to their prayer, but the face

of the Lord is against them that do evil.

6 [3:13]And who is he that will injure you if you are followers of what

is good? [3:14]But even if you suffer on account of righteousness, you

are blessed. But fear not with their fear, neither be troubled;

[3:15]and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always

ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope

that is in you; but with meekness and fear, [3:16]having a good

conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who

slander your good conduct in Christ. [3:17]For it is better to suffer

doing good, if the will of God allows, than doing evil. [3:18]For

Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he

might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in

the spirit, [3:19] in which also he went and preached to the spirits in

prison, [3:20]who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of

God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in

which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water. [3:21]The

archetype of which, baptism, also now saves us, not the putting away of

the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience in God,

through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, [3:22]who is on the right

hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers

being made subject to him.

7 [4:1]Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm

yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the

flesh has ceased from sin, [4:2]that you may no longer live the rest of

your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according

to the will of God. [4:3]For the time past is sufficient for us to have

performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate

desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,

[4:4]in which they think it strange that you run not with them to the

same excessive intemperance, blaspheming, [4:5]who shall give an

account to him that is ready to judge the living and dead. [4:6]And for

this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be

judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the

Spirit.

8 [4:7]But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober therefore, and

watch in prayers; [4:8]above all things have fervent love one for

another, for love hides a multitude of sins. [4:9]Be hospitable one to

another, without complaining; [4:10]as each has received a gift,

minister the same among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold

grace of God. [4:11]If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of

God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God

supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,

whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

CHAPTER III.

TRIALS, ADMONITIONS TO PRESBYTERS, ETC.

1 [4:12]BELOVED, think not strange of the fiery trial which is to try

you, as if some strange thing happened to you, [4:13]but as you partake

of the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that you may also rejoice exulting

at the revelation of his glory. [4:14]If you are reproached for the

name of Christ, happy are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests

on you. [4:15]But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or

an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's affairs; [4:16]but as a

Christian, let him not be ashamed, let him glorify God on this account.

[4:17]For it is time for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if

it first begins with us, what will the end be of those that obey not

the gospel of God? [4:18]And if the righteous man is scarcely saved,

where will the ungodly and the sinner appear? [4:19]Let those therefore

who suffer by the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing

as a faithful creator.

2 [5:1]The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of

the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed;

[5:2]feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but

willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind, [5:3]not as having a

lordship over God's inheritance but being examples to the flock;

[5:4]and when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an

unfading crown of glory.

3 [5:5]Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do

you all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for

God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. [5:6]Humble

yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt

you in due time; [5:7]casting all your care upon him, for he cares for

you.

4 [5:8]Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like

a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; [5:9]whom resist, firm in

the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished by your

brothers in the world. [5:10]And may the God of all grace, who called

you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a

little while, himself make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish

you. [5:11]To him be the glory and the power for ever; amen.

5 [5:12]I have written to you in a few words by Silvanus [Silas], a

faithful brother as I suppose, exhorting you, and testifying that this

is the true grace of God in which you stand. [5:13]The co-elect

[church] at Babylon salutes you, and Mark my son. [5:14]Salute one

another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all in Christ.

SECOND EPISTLE OF PETER.

BABYLON, A.D. 67.

CHAPTER I.

THE PURSUIT OF THE VIRTUES, THE GLORY OF CHRIST, FALSE TEACHERS, ETC.

1 [1:1]SIMEON Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those

who have obtained a like precious faith with us by the righteousness of

our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. [1:2]Grace and peace be multiplied to

you by a knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

2 [1:3]As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to

life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his

own glory and virtue, [1:4]through which have been given us very great

and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the

divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world

by inordinate desire, [1:5]and for the same purpose also, giving all

diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, [1:6]and

to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience

piety, [1:7]and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness

love. [1:8]For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not

inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

[1:9]for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a

distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

[1:10]Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your

calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.

[1:11]For thus shall you have an abundant entrance given you into the

eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

3 [1:12]Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these

things, although you have known them, and have been established in the

present truth. [1:13]I think it right as long as I am in this

tabernacle, to excite you by remembrance, [1:14]knowing that the

putting off of my tabernacle is at hand, as our Lord Jesus Christ

showed me. [1:15]But I will also be diligent and especially that you

may be able to make mention of these things after my departure.

[1:16]For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known

to you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye

witnesses of his majesty. [1:17]For he received from God the Father

honor and glory, when this voice was brought to him from the

magnificent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

[1:18]And this voice we heard brought from heaven when we were with him

on the holy mount. [1:19]And we have the more sure prophetic word, to

which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark

place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,

[1:20]knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of its own

solution. [1:21]For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but

moved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God.

4 [2:1]But there were also false prophets among the people, as there

shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth

destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them,

bringing on themselves swift destruction; [2:2]and many shall follow

their lewdness, on account of whom the way of truth shall be reviled,

[2:3]and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned

words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction

slumbers not. [2:4]For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but

plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in

darkness till the judgment, [2:5]and spared not the old world, but

preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing

the flood on the world of the ungodly, [2:6]and condemned Sodom and

Gomorrah to be overthrown, reducing them to ashes, making them an

example to those who should afterwards be wicked, [2:7]and delivered

righteous Lot, vexed by the lewd conduct of the wicked;-- [2:8]for that

righteous man living among them vexed his righteous soul from day to

day by seeing and hearing their wicked deeds;-- [2:9]the Lord knows how

to deliver the pious from trial, and to keep the wicked to the day of

judgment to be punished, [2:10]but especially those who walk after the

flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise government. Presumptuous,

self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories, [2:11]where the

angels who are greater in strength and power do not bring against them

a reproachful judgment; [2:12]but these, like irrational animals,

brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do

not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity, [2:13]

receiving the wages of wickedness, accounting luxury in the day-time a

pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions while

feasting with you, [2:14]having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable

to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in

covetousness, cursed children, [2:15]having left the right way they

have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who

loved the wages of wickedness, [2:16]but had a rebuke of his

transgression; the dumb ass, speaking with a man's voice, forbade the

madness of the prophet.

5 [2:17]These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest,

to which is reserved the blackness of darkness. [2:18]For speaking

extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of

lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

[2:19]promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of

corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a

servant. [2:20]For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a

knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again

entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is

worse than the first. [2:21]For it is better for them not to have

known the way of righteousness, than, having known, to turn from the

holy commandment delivered to them. [2:22] But it has happened to them

according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the

swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.

CHAPTER II.

THE COMING OF CHRIST, ETC.

1 [3:1]THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in which I

excite your pure minds by remembrance, [3:2]to remember the words

spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us the

apostles of the Lord and Saviour, [3:3] knowing this first, that in the

last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their

inordinate desires, [3:4]and saying, Where is the promise of his

coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they

were from the beginning of the world. [3:5]For of this they are

willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was

made of water and by water by the word of God, [3:6]by which the world

that then was, being overflowed with water, was destroyed. [3:7]But the

present heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being

kept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men.

2 [3:8]But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day

with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

[3:9]The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men

account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any

should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

3 [3:10]But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the

heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with

heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed. [3:11]All these

things therefore being dissolved, what persons ought we to be in holy

conduct and piety, [3:12] expecting and hastening the coming of the day

of God, in which the heavens being burnt up will be dissolved and the

elements be melted with heat. [3:13]But we, according to his promise,

look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

4 [3:14]Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that

you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace, [3:15]and

consider the long-suffering of the Lord our salvation; as also our

beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him wrote to you,

[3:16]as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which

are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable

wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.

[3:17]Do you therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] before, be on

your guard not to be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall

from your steadfastness, [3:18]but grow in grace and in the knowledge

of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and

forever.

THE EPISTLE OF JUDAS

A.D. 67.

FALSE TEACHERS, ETC.

1 [1:1]JUDAS, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the

beloved in God the Father, and the called who are kept by Jesus Christ.

[1:2]Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

2 [1:3]Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning the

common salvation, I was under a necessity to write and exhort you to

contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. [1:4]For

some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this

judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and

denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

3 [1:5]But I wish to remind you, though you once knew all, that the

Lord having saved his people from Egypt, afterwards destroyed those

that believed not, [1:6] and the angels who kept not their own

province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in

eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day; [1:7]as Sodom and

Gomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same

manner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an

example, enduring the punishment of eternal fire.

4 [1:8]In like manner also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject

government, and blaspheme glories. [1:9]But Michael the arch-angel,

when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses,

dared not bring against him a charge of blasphemy, but said, The Lord

rebuke you. [1:10]But these blaspheme what they do not understand, and

what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in these things they corrupt

themselves. [1:11]Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain,

and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the

contradiction of Korah. [1:12]These are breakers at your love-feasts,

feasting with you without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without

water driven about by winds, autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead,

plucked up by the roots, [1:13]wild waves of the sea foaming with their

own shame, wandering stars to which is reserved the blackness of

darkness for ever.

5 [1:14]And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of them,

saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousand of his saints [1:15]to

execute judgment on all, and to convict all the wicked among them of

all the deeds of impiety which they have impiously committed, and of

all the hard speeches which impious sinners have spoken against him.

[1:16]These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate

desires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of

persons for the sake of gain.

6 [1:17]But do you, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the

apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, [1:18]that they said to you, That in

the last time there shall be scoffers, walking in their own impious

desires. [1:19]These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having

not the Spirit. [1:20]But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your

most holy faith, pray with the Holy Spirit. [1:21]Keep yourselves in

the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to

eternal life. [1:22]And reprove some, separatists, [1:23]and some

save, plucking them from the fire, but have mercy on others with fear,

hating even the garment that is defiled by the flesh.

7 [1:24]And to him that is able to keep you without falling, and to

present you blameless before his glory, with great joy, [1:25]to God

our only Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty,

power and authority before all worlds, both now and for ever more; amen.

FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN.

A. D. 68.

CHAPTER I.

CHRIST THE LIFE, GOD IS LIGHT, WALKING WITH HIM, FALSE TEACHERS, ETC.

1 [1:1]THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard,

that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our

hands felt, concerning the Word of life,-- [1:2]and the life was made

manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal

life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,-- [1:3]that

which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have

fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his

Son Jesus Christ. [1:4]And these things we write to you, that your joy

may be complete.

2 [1:5]And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare

to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness. [1:6]If

we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie

and observe not the truth; [1:7]but if we walk in the light, as he is

in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of

Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. [1:8]If we say we have not sin,

we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. [1:9]If we confess

our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse

us from all wickedness. [1:10]If we say that we have not sinned, we

make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

3 [2:1]My little children, these things I write to you that you may not

sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father,

Jesus Christ the righteous, [2:2]and he is a propitiation for our sins,

and not for ours only but for all the world. [2:3]And by this we know

that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. [2:4]He that says,

I have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the

truth is not in him; [2:5]but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is

the love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him. [2:6]He

that says he continues in him, ought also himself so to walk as he

walked.

4 [2:7]Beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old

commandment, which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is

the word which you heard. [2:8]Again, a new commandment I write you,

which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the

true light now appears. [2:9]He that says he is in the light, and hates

his brother, is in darkness till now. [2:10] He that loves his brother

continues in the light, and there is no offense in him; [2:11]but he

that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows

not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

5 [2:12]I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven

on account of his name. [2:13]I write to you, fathers, because you have

known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men,

because you have overcome the evil one. I wrote to you, little

children, because you have known the Father. [2:14]I wrote to you,

fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote

to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God

continues in you, and you have overcome the evil one. [2:15]Love not

the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the

love of the Father is not in him; [2:16]for all that is in the world,

the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of

life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [2:17]And the world

passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God

continues for ever.

6 [2:18]Little children, it is the last time; and as you heard that

antichrist is coming, even now many have become anti-christs; whence we

know that it is the last time. [2:19]They went out from us, but they

were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued

with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that

they are not all of us. [2:20]And you have an anointing from the Holy

One, and know all things. [2:21]I have not written to you because you

know not the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of

the truth. [2:22]Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the

Christ? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and

the Son. [2:23]No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that

confesses the Son has the Father also. [2:24]Let that which you heard

from the beginning continue in you. If that which you heard from the

beginning continues in you, you also shall continue in the Son and in

the Father. [2:25]And this is the promise which he promised us, the

eternal life.

7 [2:26]I have written these things to you concerning those who deceive

you. [2:27]And the anointing which you received from him continues in

you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his

anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even

as it has taught you, continue in him.

8 [2:28]And now, little children, continue in him, that when he shall

appear we may have boldness, and not be put to shame by him at his

coming. [2:29]If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one

who does righteousness has been born of him.

9 [3:1]See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called

children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him

not.

10 [3:2]Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear

what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like

him, for we shall see him as he is. [3:3]And every one that has this

hope in him purifies himself, as he is pure. [3:4]Every one that

commits sin commits also wickedness, and sin is wickedness. [3:5]And we

know that he was manifested to take away sins, and in him there is no

sin. [3:6]No one that continues in him sins; no one that sins has seen

him, or known him.

11 [3:7]Little children, let no one deceive you. He that does

righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous; [3:8]he that commits

sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this

was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

[3:9]No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed

continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

[3:10]By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the

devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that

loves not his brother. [3:11]For this is the message which you heard

from the beginning; that we should love one another; [3:12]not as Cain

was of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him?

because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

12 [3:13]Wonder not, brothers, if the world hates you. [3:14]We know

that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers;

he that loves not, continues in death. [3:15]Every one that hates his

brother is a murderer; and we know that no murderer has eternal life

continuing in him. [3:16]By this we have known love, because he laid

down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the

brothers. [3:17]And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his

brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how

continues the love of God in him?

13 [3:18]My little children, let us not love in word nor tongue, but in

work and truth. [3:19]And by this we know that we are of the truth, and

shall assure our hearts before him; [3:20]for if our minds condemn us,

God is greater than our minds and knows all things.

14 [3:21]Beloved, if our minds do not condemn us, we have boldness

before God, [3:22]and what we ask we receive from him, because we keep

his commandments and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

[3:23]And this is his commandment; that we should believe in the name

of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave commandment.

[3:24]And he that keeps his commandments continues in him and he in

him; and by this we know that he continues in us, by the Spirit which

he gave us.

CHAPTER II.

FALSE SPIRITS, BROTHERLY LOVE, THE LOVE OF GOD, THE THREE WITNESSES,

ETC.

1 [4:1]BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether

they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

[4:2]By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses

that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, [4:3]and every

spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the

[spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and

he is now in the world already.

2 [4:4]You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because

greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. [4:5]They

are of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears

them. [4:6]We are of God; he that knows God hears us, he that is not of

God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the

spirit of error.

3 [4:7]Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every

one that loves has been born of God and knows God. [4:8]He that loves

not has not known God; for God is love. [4:9]The love of God was

manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world

that we may live through him. [4:10]In this is love; not that we loved

God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

4 [4:11]Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

[4:12] No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues

in us and his love is perfected in us. [4:13]By this we know that we

continue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit.

[4:14]And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son,

the Saviour of the world. [4:15]Whoever confesses that Jesus is the

Son of God, God continues in him and he in God. [4:16]And we have known

and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that

continues in love continues in God and God in him.

5 [4:17]By this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in

the day of judgment, that as he is we also are in this world.

[4:18]There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for

fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

[4:19]We love, because he first loved us. [4:20] If any one says, I

love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not

his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

[4:21]And we have this commandment from him, that he who loves God

should also love his brother.

6 [5:1]Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of

God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born

to him. [5:2] By this we know that we love the children of God, when we

love God and keep his commandments. [5:3]For this is the love of God,

that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous;

[5:4]for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and

this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith. [5:5]Who is

he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son

of God?

7 [5:6]This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus, the Christ; not

by water only, but by water and by blood; and the Spirit is that which

testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. [5:7]For there are three that

testify; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are

one. [5:9]If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is

greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified

concerning his Son. [5:10]He that believes on the Son of God has the

testimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar,

because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified

concerning his Son. [5:11]And this is the testimony, that God gave us

eternal life, and this life is in his Son. [5:12]He that has the Son

has the life; he that has not the Son has not the life.

8 [5:13]These things have I written to you, that you who believe in the

name of the Son of God may know that you have eternal life. [5:14]And

this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask

any thing according to his will he hears us. [5:15]And if we know that

he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which

we have asked of him. [5:16]If any one sees his brother commit a sin,

not to death, he shall ask, and he will give him life, for those who

sin not to death. There is a sin to death; I say not that you should

pray for it. [5:17]All wickedness is sin, and there is sin not to death.

9 [5:18]We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin,

but he that has been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does

not touch him. [5:19]We know that we are of God, and the whole world

lies in wickedness. [5:20]And we know that the Son of God has come, and

has given us understanding that we may know the true One; and we are in

the true One, in his Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God, and

eternal life. [5:21]Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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6 [3:1]For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you