39 And these all, having obtained 9 Furthermore we have had fathers a good report through faith, received of our flesh which corrected us, and not the promise: we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. CHAPTER XII. 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might WHEREFORE seeing we also be partakers of his holiness. are compassed about with so great a II Now no chastening for the precloud of witnesses, let us lay aside sent seemeth to be joyous, but griev every weight, and the sin which doth ous: nevertheless afterward it yieldso easily beset us, and let us run with eth the peaceable fruit of righteouspatience the race that is set before us, ness unto them which are exercised 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. thereby. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto see the Lord: blood, striving against sin. 15 Looking diligently lest any man 5 And ye have forgotten the exhor-fail of the grace of God; lest any root tation which speaketh unto you as of bitterness springing up trouble you, unto children, My son, despise not and thereby many be defiled; thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited 7 If ye endure chastening, God the blessing, he was rejected: for he dealeth with you as with sons; for found no place of repentance, though what son is he whom the father he sought it carefully with tears. chasteneth not? 18 For ye are not come unto the 8 But if ye be without chastise-mount that might be touched, and ment, whereof all are partakers, then that burned with fire, nor unto blackare ye bastards, and not sons. |ness, and darkness, and tempest, 39 A the promises 12,2 S om. of God 3 S against themselves 7 SA Ye endure unto chastisement; SA for what son is he whom II S Verily no chastening 18 SA come unto the fire that might be touched and burned, nor 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and that are shaken, as of things that are the voice of words; which voice they made, that those things which cannot that heard intreated that the word be shaken may remain. should not be spoken to them any more: 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire. CHAPTER XIII. that Moses said, I exceedingly fear LET brotherly love continue. and quake:) 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the 5 Let your conversation be without new covenant, and to the blood of covetousness; and be content with sprinkling, that speaketh better things such things as ye have: for he hath than that of Abel. said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation: 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 9 Be not carried about with divers 19 A that it would not add a word to them SA om. or thrust through with a dart 23 S and to the spirits which have been justified, of perfect men 26 SA I will shake not 27 A om. that those things which cannot be shaken may remain 28 S Wherefore receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, we have grace, whereby we serve; SA with godly fear and reverence 13,4 SA for whoremongers 6S om. and 9 SA Be not carried away and strange doctrines. For it is a good may do it with joy, and not with thing that the heart be established grief: for that is unprofitable for you. with grace; not with meats, which 18 Pray for us: for we trust we have have not profited them that have been a good conscience, in all things willoccupied therein. ing to live honestly. 10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. 19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. II For the bodies of those beasts, 20 Now the God of peace, that whose blood is brought into the sanc-brought again from the dead our Lord tuary by the high priest for sin, are Jesus, that great shepherd of the burned without the camp. sheep, through the blood of the evelasting covenant, 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. 15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they] 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. 23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you. 24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. 25 Grace be with you all. Amen. ¶ Written to the Hebrews from Italy by Timothy. 9 SA them that are occupied therein 11 A om. for sin 15 S om. therefore 21 Sin every good thing, A in every good work and word; SA add unto him after will; S working in us 25 S om. Amen. Subscription: S To the Hebrews, A To the Hebrews was written from Rome. THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF CHAPTER I. JAMES. 12 Blessed is the man that endureth JAMES, a servant of God and of temptation; for when he is tried, he the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve shall receive the crown of life, which tribes which are scattered abroad, the Lord hath promised to them that greeting. love him. 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him 15 Then when lust hath conceived, ask of God, that giveth to all men li-it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it berally, and upbraideth not; and it is finished, bringeth forth death. shall be given him. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. II For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, Title: V(A) The epistle of James. S has no title. 1,11 V om. of it 12 SVA which he hath promised 19 SVA know (A Now know), my beloved brethren: but (A and for but) let and not hearers only, deceiving your selves, and are become judges of evil own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. My brethren, have not the faith our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: thoughts? 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? 7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. II For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a trans gressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, 4 Are ye not then partial in your-and destitute of daily food, #3 A om. For 25 SVA continueth therein, being not 26 SVA om. among you 27 A For pure religion 2,3 V but ye have; SVA om. unto him; V stand or sit thou there; A or sit under the footstool of my feet 4 A om. then; V ye are partial 5 SVA the poor in the world; SA heirs of the promise, which 7 A And they blaspheme 10 A shall fulfil the whole law IA a forsaker of the law 13 SV om. and; A but let mercy rejoice against 15 A or destitute |