6:1Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on [to what belongs] to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God, 6:2of [the] doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of [the] dead, and of eternal judgment; 6:3and this will we do if God permit. 6:4For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of [the] Holy Spirit, 6:5and have tasted the good word of God, and [the] works of power of [the] age to come, 6:6and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves [as they do] the Son of God, and making a show of [him]. 6:7For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God; 6:8but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end [is] to be burned. 6:9But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus. 6:10For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and [still] ministering. 6:11But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end; 6:12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises. 6:13For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself, 6:14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee; 6:15and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise. 6:16For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure. 6:17Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath, 6:18that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was] impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, 6:19which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil, 6:20where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.
7:1For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him; 7:2to whom Abraham gave also the tenth portion of all; first being interpreted King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace; 7:3without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to the Son of God, abides a priest continually. 7:4Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even] the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils. 7:5And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham: 7:6but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises. 7:7But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better. 7:8And here dying men receive tithes; but there [one] of whom the witness is that he lives; 7:9and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes. 7:10For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him. 7:11If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with *it*, what need [was there] still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron? 7:12For, the priesthood being changed, there takes place of necessity a change of law also. 7:13For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has [ever] been attached to the service of the altar. 7:14For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests. 7:15And it is yet more abundantly evident, since a different priest arises according to the similitude of Melchisedec, 7:16who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life. 7:17For it is borne witness, *Thou* art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec. 7:18For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness, 7:19(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God. 7:20And by how much [it was] not without the swearing of an oath; 7:21(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent [of it], *Thou* [art] priest for ever [according to the order of Melchisedec];) 7:22by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant. 7:23And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death; 7:24but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable. 7:25Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them. 7:26For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens: 7:27who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this he did once for all [in] having offered up himself. 7:28For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath which [is] after the law, a Son perfected for ever.
8:1Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking [is], We have such a one high priest who has sat down on [the] right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens; 8:2minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, [and] not man. 8:3For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer. 8:4If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law, 8:5(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told [when] about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.) 8:6But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises. 8:7For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second. 8:8For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda; 8:9not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in [the] day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith [the] Lord. 8:10Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people. 8:11And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from [the] little one [among them] unto [the] great among them. 8:12Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more. 8:13In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged [is] near disappearing.
9:1The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one. 9:2For a tabernacle was set up; the first, in which [were] both the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves, which is called Holy; 9:3but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies, 9:4having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which [were] the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant; 9:5and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now [the time] to speak in detail. 9:6Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the services; 9:7but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people: 9:8the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the [holy of] holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has [its] standing; 9:9the which [is] an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered, 9:10[consisting] only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until [the] time of setting things right. 9:11But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,) 9:12nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the [holy of] holies, having found an eternal redemption. 9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh, 9:14how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship [the] living God? 9:15And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 9:16(For where [there is] a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in. 9:17For a testament [is] of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.) 9:18Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood. 9:19For every commandment having been spoken according to [the] law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 9:20saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you. 9:21And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood; 9:22and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission. 9:23[It was] necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these. 9:24For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: 9:25nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own; 9:26since he had [then] been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for [the] putting away of sin by his sacrifice. 9:27And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment; 9:28thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.
10:1For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach. 10:2Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins? 10:3But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly. 10:4For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins. 10:5Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body. 10:6Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin. 10:7Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will. 10:8Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law); 10:9then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second; 10:10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 10:12But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God, 10:13waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set [for the] footstool of his feet. 10:14For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified. 10:15And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for after what was said: 10:16This [is] the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith [the] Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings; 10:17and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more. 10:18But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no longer a sacrifice for sin. 10:19Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus, 10:20the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh, 10:21and [having] a great priest over the house of God, 10:22let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water. 10:23Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he [is] faithful who has promised;) 10:24and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works; 10:25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom [is] with some; but encouraging [one another], and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near. 10:26For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins, 10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries. 10:28Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses: 10:29of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 10:30For we know him that said, To me [belongs] vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people. 10:31[It is] a fearful thing falling into [the] hands of [the] living God. 10:32But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings; 10:33on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them. 10:34For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one. 10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense. 10:36For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. 10:37For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay. 10:38But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him. 10:39But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving [the] soul.
11:1Now faith is [the] substantiating of things hoped for, [the] conviction of things not seen. 11:2For in [the power of] this the elders have obtained testimony. 11:3By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by [the] word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear. 11:4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks. 11:5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before [his] translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God. 11:6But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them who seek him out. 11:7By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which [is] according to faith. 11:8By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out, not knowing where he was going. 11:9By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with [him] of the same promise; 11:10for he waited for the city which has foundations, of which God is [the] artificer and constructor. 11:11By faith also Sarah herself received strength for [the] conception of seed, and [that] beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised. 11:12Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which [is] by the sea shore. 11:13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth. 11:14For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek [their] country. 11:15And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned; 11:16but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city. 11:17By faith Abraham, [when] tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten [son], 11:18as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called: 11:19counting that God [was] able to raise [him] even from among [the] dead, whence also he received him in a figure. 11:20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 11:21By faith Jacob [when] dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped on the top of his staff. 11:22By faith Joseph [when] dying called to mind the going forth of the sons of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones. 11:23By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king. 11:24By faith Moses, when he had become great, refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter; 11:25choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have [the] temporary pleasure of sin; 11:26esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense. 11:27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he persevered, as seeing him who is invisible. 11:28By faith he celebrated the passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. 11:29By faith they passed through the Red sea as through dry land; of which the Egyptians having made trial were swallowed up. 11:30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days. 11:31By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with the unbelieving, having received the spies in peace. 11:32And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, and David and Samuel, and of the prophets: 11:33who by faith overcame kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped lions' mouths, 11:34quenched [the] power of fire, escaped [the] edge of the sword, became strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, made [the] armies of strangers give way. 11:35Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection; 11:36and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, and of bonds and imprisonment. 11:37They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated, 11:38(of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts and mountains, and [in] dens and caverns of the earth. 11:39And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise, 11:40God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.
12:1Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us, 12:2looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured [the] cross, having despised [the] shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 12:3For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds. 12:4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin. 12:5And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not [the] chastening of [the] Lord, nor faint [when] reproved by him; 12:6for whom [the] Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives. 12:7Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not? 12:8But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 12:9Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced [them]; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 12:10For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness. 12:11But no chastening at the time seems to be [matter] of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields [the] peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it. 12:12Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees; 12:13and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed. 12:14Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord: 12:15watching lest [there be] any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and many be defiled by it; 12:16lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright; 12:17for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears. 12:18For ye have not come to [the mount] that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest, 12:19and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined [the] word being addressed to them any more: 12:20(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; 12:21and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;) 12:22but ye have come to mount Zion; and to [the] city of [the] living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels, 12:23the universal gathering; and to [the] assembly of the firstborn [who are] registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to [the] spirits of just [men] made perfect; 12:24and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to [the] blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel. 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him [who does so] from heaven: 12:26whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once will *I* shake not only the earth, but also the heaven. 12:27But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain. 12:28Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear. 12:29For also our God [is] a consuming fire.
13:1Let brotherly love abide. 13:2Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by it some have unawares entertained angels. 13:3Remember prisoners, as bound with [them]; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in [the] body. 13:4[Let] marriage [be held] every way in honour, and the bed [be] undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. 13:5[Let your] conversation [be] without love of money, satisfied with [your] present circumstances; for *he* has said, I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee. 13:6So that, taking courage, we may say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not be afraid: what will man do unto me? 13:7Remember your leaders who have spoken to you the word of God; and considering the issue of their conversation, imitate their faith. 13:8Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and to-day, and to the ages [to come]. 13:9Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for [it is] good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by [them]. 13:10We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle; 13:11for of those beasts whose blood is carried [as sacrifices for sin] into the [holy of] holies by the high priest, of these the bodies are burned outside the camp. 13:12Wherefore also Jesus, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate: 13:13therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach: 13:14for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one. 13:15By him therefore let us offer [the] sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, [the] fruit of [the] lips confessing his name. 13:16But of doing good and communicating [of your substance] be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 13:17Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for *they* watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you. 13:18Pray for us: for we persuade ourselves that we have a good conscience, in all things desirous to walk rightly. 13:19But I much more beseech [you] to do this, that I may the more quickly be restored to you. 13:20But the God of peace, who brought again from among [the] dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in [the power of the] blood of [the] eternal covenant, 13:21perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for the ages of ages. Amen. 13:22But I beseech you, brethren, bear the word of exhortation, for it is but in few words that I have written to you. 13:23Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty; with whom, if he should come soon, I will see you. 13:24Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. They from Italy salute you. 13:25Grace [be] with you all. Amen.
James
1:1James, bondman of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which [are] in the dispersion, greeting. 1:2Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations, 1:3knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance. 1:4But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 1:5But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him: 1:6but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about; 1:7for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord; 1:8[he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 1:9But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation, 1:10and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's flower he will pass away. 1:11For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings. 1:12Blessed [is the] man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him. 1:13Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one. 1:14But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust; 1:15then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death. 1:16Do not err, my beloved brethren. 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. 1:18According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of *his* creatures. 1:19So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 1:20for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness. 1:21Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 1:22But be ye doers of [the] word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves. 1:23For if any man be a hearer of [the] word and not a doer, *he* is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror: 1:24for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like. 1:25But *he* that fixes his view on [the] perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in [it], being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of [the] work, *he* shall be blessed in his doing. 1:26If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain. 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
2:1My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [Lord] of glory, with respect of persons: 2:2for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile apparel, 2:3and ye look upon him who wears the splendid apparel, and say, Do thou sit here well, and say to the poor, Do thou stand there, or sit here under my footstool: 2:4have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become judges having evil thoughts? 2:5Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him? 2:6But *ye* have despised the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and [do not] *they* drag you before [the] tribunals? 2:7And [do not] *they* blaspheme the excellent name which has been called upon you? 2:8If indeed ye keep [the] royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well. 2:9But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 2:10For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one [point], he has come under the guilt of [breaking] all. 2:11For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become transgressor of [the] law. 2:12So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by [the] law of liberty; 2:13for judgment [will be] without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment. 2:14What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him? 2:15Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 2:16and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what [is] the profit? 2:17So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself. 2:18But some one will say, *Thou* hast faith and *I* have works. Shew me thy faith without works, and *I* from my works will shew thee my faith. 2:19*Thou* believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble. 2:20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 2:21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 2:22Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected. 2:23And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God. 2:24Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only. 2:25But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put [them] forth by another way? 2:26For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
3:1Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment. 3:2For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he* [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too. 3:3Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies. 3:4Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will. 3:5Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles! 3:6and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell. 3:7For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species; 3:8but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison. 3:9Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after [the] likeness of God. 3:10Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus. 3:11Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter? 3:12Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water. 3:13Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom; 3:14but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 3:15This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish. 3:16For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing. 3:17But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned. 3:18But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.
4:1Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members? 4:2Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not. 4:3Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures. 4:4Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God. 4:5Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously? 4:6But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly. 4:7Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded. 4:9Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. 4:10Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you. 4:11Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge. 4:12One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour? 4:13Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain, 4:14ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,) 4:15instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that. 4:16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. 4:17To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
5:1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that [are] coming upon [you]. 5:2Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten. 5:3Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in [the] last days. 5:4Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of [the] Lord of sabaoth. 5:5Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts [as] in a day of slaughter; 5:6ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you. 5:7Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive [the] early and [the] latter rain. 5:8*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh. 5:9Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door. 5:10Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the] Lord. 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful. 5:12But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment. 5:13Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms. 5:14Is any sick among you? let him call to [him] the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of [the] Lord; 5:15and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he be one who has committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 5:16Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. [The] fervent supplication of the righteous [man] has much power. 5:17Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months; 5:18and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to spring forth. 5:19My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back, 5:20let him know that he that brings back a sinner from [the] error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.
1 Peter
1:1Peter, apostle of Jesus Christ, to [the] sojourners of [the] dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 1:2elect according to [the] foreknowledge of God [the] Father, by sanctification of [the] Spirit, unto [the] obedience and sprinkling of [the] blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 1:3Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has begotten us again to a living hope through [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ from among [the] dead, 1:4to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, reserved in [the] heavens for you, 1:5who are kept guarded by [the] power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in [the] last time. 1:6Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials, 1:7that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in [the] revelation of Jesus Christ: 1:8whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom [though] not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with [the] glory, 1:9receiving the end of your faith, [the] salvation of [your] souls. 1:10Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of the grace towards you, sought out and searched out; 1:11searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ which [was] in them pointed out, testifying before of the sufferings which [belonged] to Christ, and the glories after these. 1:12To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves but to you they ministered those things, which have now been announced to you by those who have declared to you the glad tidings by [the] Holy Spirit, sent from heaven, which angels desire to look into. 1:13Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, [be] sober [and] hope with perfect stedfastness in the grace [which will be] brought to you at [the] revelation of Jesus Christ; 1:14as children of obedience, not conformed to [your] former lusts in your ignorance; 1:15but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all [your] conversation; 1:16because it is written, Be ye holy, for *I* am holy. 1:17And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear, 1:18knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible [things, as] silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from [your] fathers, 1:19but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, [the blood] of Christ, 1:20foreknown indeed before [the] foundation of [the] world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes, 1:21who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among [the] dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God. 1:22Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently; 1:23being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by [the] living and abiding word of God. 1:24Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as [the] flower of grass. The grass has withered and [its] flower has fallen; 1:25but the word of [the] Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings [is] preached to you.
2:1Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings, 2:2as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation, 2:3if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good. 2:4To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious, 2:5yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 2:6Because it is contained in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Zion a corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be put to shame. 2:7To you therefore who believe [is] the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of [the] corner, 2:8and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; [who] stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed. 2:9But *ye* [are] a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light; 2:10who once [were] not a people, but now God's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy. 2:11Beloved, I exhort [you], as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 2:12having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them], glorify God in [the] day of visitation. 2:13Be in subjection [therefore] to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to [the] king as supreme, 2:14or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well. 2:15Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men; 2:16as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen. 2:17Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king. 2:18Servants, [be] subject with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered. 2:19For this [is] acceptable, if one, for conscience sake towards God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly. 2:20For what glory [is it], if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear [it]? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear [it], this is acceptable with God. 2:21For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps: 2:22who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; 2:23who, [when] reviled, reviled not again; [when] suffering, threatened not; but gave [himself] over into the hands of him who judges righteously; 2:24who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed. 2:25For ye were going astray as sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.
3:1Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without [the] word by the conversation of the wives, 3:2having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in fear; 3:3whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel; 3:4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. 3:5For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands; 3:6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation. 3:7[Ye] husbands likewise, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, as with a weaker, [even] the female, vessel, giving [them] honour, as also fellow-heirs of [the] grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. 3:8Finally, [be] all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded; 3:9not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing [others], because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing. 3:10For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile. 3:11And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it; 3:12because [the] eyes of [the] Lord [are] on [the] righteous, and his ears towards their supplications; but [the] face of [the] Lord [is] against them that do evil. 3:13And who shall injure you if ye have become imitators of that which [is] good? 3:14But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye]; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled; 3:15but sanctify [the] Lord the Christ in your hearts, and [be] always prepared to [give] an answer [to] every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that [is] in you, but with meekness and fear; 3:16having a good conscience, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ. 3:17For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers; 3:18for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit, 3:19in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are] in prison, 3:20heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in [the] days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: 3:21which figure also now saves you, [even] baptism, not a putting away of [the] filth of flesh, but [the] demand as before God of a good conscience, by [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ, 3:22who is at [the] right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to him.
4:1Christ, then, having suffered for us in [the] flesh, do *ye* also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has suffered in [the] flesh has done with sin, 4:2no longer to live the rest of [his] time in [the] flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will. 4:3For the time past [is] sufficient [for us] to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries. 4:4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously [of you]; 4:5who shall render account to him who is ready to judge [the] living and [the] dead. 4:6For to this [end] were the glad tidings preached to [the] dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after [the] flesh, but live, as regards God, after [the] Spirit. 4:7But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers; 4:8but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins; 4:9hospitable one to another, without murmuring; 4:10each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of [the] various grace of God. 4:11If any one speak as oracles of God; if any one minister as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen. 4:12Beloved, take not [as] strange the fire [of persecution] which has taken place amongst you for [your] trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you; 4:13but as ye have share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that in the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exultation. 4:14If ye are reproached in [the] name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; for the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.] 4:15Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters; 4:16but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name. 4:17For the time of having the judgment begin from the house of God [is come]; but if first from us, what [shall be] the end of those who obey not the glad tidings of God? 4:18And if the righteous is difficultly saved, where shall the impious and [the] sinner appear? 4:19Wherefore also let them who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.
5:1The elders which [are] among you I exhort, who [am their] fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also [am] partaker of the glory about to be revealed: 5:2shepherd the flock of God which [is] among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily; 5:3not as lording it over your possessions, but being models for the flock. 5:4And when the chief shepherd is manifested ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory. 5:5Likewise [ye] younger, be subject to [the] elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against [the] proud, but to [the] humble gives grace. 5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in [the due] time; 5:7having cast all your care upon him, for he cares about you. 5:8Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary [the] devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour. 5:9Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which [is] in [the] world. 5:10But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground: 5:11to him [be] the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen. 5:12By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written to you briefly; exhorting and testifying that this is [the] true grace of God in which ye stand. 5:13She that is elected with [you] in Babylon salutes you, and Marcus my son. 5:14Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be with you all who [are] in Christ.