The General Epistle of James Chapter I.

[The apostle's address: he exhorteth to patience in affliction, 6 to pray in faith. 14 Our lusts tempt us to sin.]

JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus
Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered 
abroad, greeting.
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. 
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, 
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; 
and it shall be given him. 
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. 
11 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. 
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: 
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown life, 
which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 
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. 
15 Then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth 
death. 
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 
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 first-fruits 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 worth not the righteousness 
of God. 
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity 
of naughtiness and receive with meekness the 
ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers 
only, deceiving your 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 continuity 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. 

HEBREWS CHAPTER XIII.

[1 Exhortations to charity, 2 to hospitality, 3 pity to the afflicted, 4 chastity, 
5 contentment, 7 to regard God's preachers, 9 to avoid strange doctrines]

LET brotherly love continue. 
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. 
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; 
and be content with such things as ye have: for he 
hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. 
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, to-day, and 
for ever. 
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange
doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be 
established with grace; not with meats, which have 
not profited them that have been occupied therein. 
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right 
to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is
brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for 
sin, are burned without the camp. 
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 may do it with
joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good
conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. 
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that
I may be restored to you the sooner. 
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from 
the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the 
sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 
21 Make you perfect in every good work, to do 
his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing 
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.]

HEBREWS CHAPTER XII.

[ 1 An exhortation to patience and constancy; 14 to follow peace and holiness. 25 The danger of refusing the world. ] 

WHEREFORE, seeing we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let 
us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth
so easily best us, and let us run with patience the 
race that is set before us, 
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, let ye be wearied 
against sin. 
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which 
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise
not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when 
thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and 
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you 
as with sons: for what son is he whom the father 
chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all 
are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 
9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh 
which corrected us, and we gave them reverence:
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the 
Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us
after their own pleasure: but he for our profit, that 
we might be partakers of his holiness. 
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to 
be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it 
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto 
them which are exercised thereby. 
12 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 see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the 
grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing 
up, trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Let 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 the blessing, he was rejected:
for he found no place of repentance, though he 
sought it carefully with tears. 
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that
might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor 
unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of 
words; which voice they that heard, entreated that 
the word 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, that Moses said, 
I exceedingly fear 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 
first-born, which are written in heaven, and to God 
the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men
made perfect, 
24 And to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh 
better things than that of Abel. 
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 that are shaken, as of 
things that are made, that those things which cannot 
be shaken may remain. 
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. 

HEBREWS CHAPTER XI.

[ 1 The nature of faith. 6 Without faith we cannot please God: the fruits of faith.] 

NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, 
the evidence of things not seen:
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds 
were framed by the word of God, so that things which 
are seen were not made of things which do appear. 
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a  more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness
that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and 
by it he being dead yet speaketh. 
5 By faith Enoch was translated, that he should 
not see death; and was not found, because God had 
translated him: for before his translation he had
this testimony, that he pleased God. 
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and 
that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things 
not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to
the saving of his house; by the which he condemned 
the world, and became heir of the righteousness 
which is by faith. 
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go 
out into a place which he should after receive for an 
inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not-knowing 
whither he went. 
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in
a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac
and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, 
whose builder and maker is God. 
11 Through faith also Sara herself received 
strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a 
child when she was past age, because she judged 
him faithful who had promised. 
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him 
as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in 
multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore
innumerable.
13 These all died in faith, not having received 
the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were
persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed 
that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 
14  For they that say such things declare plainly
that they seek a country. 
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that 
country from whence they came out, they might have 
had opportunity to have returned. 
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, 
an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be 
called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered 
up Isaac: and he that had received the promises 
offered up his only-begotten son, 
18 Of whom it was said, 'That in Isaac shall thy 
seed be called:
19 Accounting that God was able to raise him
up, even from the dead; from whence also he received 
him in a figure. 
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning 
things to come. 
21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed 
both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning
upon the top of his staff. 
22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention 
of the departing of his children of Israel; and gave 
commandment concerning his bones. 
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid
three months of his parents, because they saw he was 
a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's 
commandment. 
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years,
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people
of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater 
riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect 
unto the recompense of the reward. 
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the 
wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him 
who is invisible. 
28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the 
sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn 
should touch them. 
29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as 
by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do 
were drowned. 
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after 
they were compassed about seven days. 
31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with 
them that believed not, when she had received 
the spies with peace. 
32 And what shall I more say? for the time 
would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and 
of Samson, and of Jepthae, of David also, and 
Samuel, and of the prophets:
33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths 
of lions. 
34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the 
edge of the sword, out of weakness were made 
strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the 
armies of the aliens. 
35 Women received their dead raised to life again:
and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance;
that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trial of cruel mocking and 
scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, 
were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered 
about in sheep-skins and goat-skins; being 
destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they 
wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens
and caves of the earth. 
39 And these all, having obtained a good report
through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, 
that they without us should not be made perfect. 

HEBREWS CHAPTER X.

[1 The law-sacrifices ineffectual to take away sins. 10 By the offering of Christ's body once we obtain perfect remission.] 


FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, 
and not the very image of the things, can 
never with those sacrifices which they offered year
by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
because that the worshippers once purged
should have had no more conscience of sins. 
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance
again made of sins every year.  
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls
 and of goats should take away sins. 
5 Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he 
saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, 
but a body hast thou prepared me: 
6 In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast 
had no pleasure. 
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the 
book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. 
8 Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering and 
burnt-offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, 
neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by 
the law; 
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. 
He taketh away the first, that he may establish the 
second. 
10 By the which will we are sanctified through 
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering 
and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which 
can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice 
for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God; 
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be 
made his footstool. 
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever 
them that are sanctified. 
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to 
us: for after that he had said before, 
16 This is the covenant that I will make with 
them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my 
laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write 
them; 
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember 
no more. 
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no 
more offering for sin. 
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter 
into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated 
for us, through the vail, that is to say, his 
flesh; 
21 And having an high priest over the house of 
God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart, in full 
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from 
an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure 
water. 
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith 
without wavering; for he is faithful that promised:
24 And let us consider one another, to provoke
unto love, and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting
one another; and so much the more, as ye see the 
day approaching. 
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received
the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth 
no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for judgment and 
fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 
28 He that despised Moses' law, died without 
mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, 
shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under 
foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the 
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy
thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance 
belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. 
And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of 
the living God. 
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in 
which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great 
fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, while ye were made a gazing-stock
both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while
ye became companions of them that were so used. 
34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, 
and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing 
in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better 
and an enduring substance. 
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, 
which hath great recompense of reward. 
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the 
promise. 
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come 
will come, and will not tarry. 
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man
draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto 
perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of 
the soul.    

HEBREWS CHAPTER IX.

[1 By the imperfection of the legal sacrifices, 11 he sheweth the efficacy of 
the blood of Christ. 16 The necessity of Christ's death.] 

THEN verily the first covenant had also ordinances
of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first 
wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and 
the shew-bread; which is called the sanctuary. 
3 And after the second vail, the tabernacle which 
is called the Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of 
the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein
was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's
rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing 
the mercy-seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, 
the priests went always into the first tabernacle, 
accomplishing the service of God:
7 But into the second went the high priest alone
once every year, not without blood, which he offered 
for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way
into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, 
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, 
in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that 
could not make him that did the service perfect, as 
pertaining to the conscience; 
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and 
divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed
on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good 
things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, 
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this 
building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but 
by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and 
the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth
to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, 
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from 
dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the 
new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption
of the transgressions that were under the 
first testament, they which are called might receive 
the promise of eternal inheritance. 
16 For where a testament is, there must also of 
necessity be the death of the testator. 
17 For a testament is of force after men are 
dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the 
testator liveth. 
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was 
dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to 
all the people according to the law, he took the 
blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet 
wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book 
and all the people.
20 Say, This is the blood of the testament
which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the 
tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 
22 And almost all things are by the law purged
with blood; and without shedding of blood is no 
remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns 
of things in the heavens should be purified with 
these; but the heavenly things themselves with 
better sacrifices than these. 
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true; 
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence
of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as 
the high priest entirety into the holy place every 
year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since 
the foundation of the world: but now once in the 
end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of 
many; and unto them that look for him shall he 
appear the second time without sin unto salvation.  

HEBREWS CHAPTER VIII.

[1 The excellency of Christ's ministry, 6 being the mediator of a better covenant.]

NOW of the things which we have spoken this is 
the sum: We have such an high priest, who 
is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty 
in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man. 
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts
and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this 
man have somewhat also to offer. 
4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a 
priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts 
according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of 
heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See
(saith he) that thou  make all things according to the 
pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent 
ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a 
better covenant, which was established upon better 
promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second. 
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold 
the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a 
new covenant with the house of Israel and with the 
house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with 
their fathers, in the day when I took them by the
hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because
they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded 
them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with 
the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them
in their hearts: and  I will be to them a God, and 
they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the 
Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the 
greatest. 
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their iniquities will I remember 
no more. 
13 In that he saith, A new covenant,  he hath made 
the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth 
old, is ready to vanish away.