7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs Paccording to the hope of eternal life.

8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

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9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. 10 A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject;

11 Knowing that he that is such, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to NicopoTis: for I have determined there to winter.

13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and a Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.

14 And let ours also learn to I maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.

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4 He rejoiceth to hear of the faith and love of Philemon, 9 whom he desireth to forgive his servant Onesimus, and lovingly to receive him again.

PAUL, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow-labourer, 2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus dour fellow-soldier, and to the church in thy house:

3f Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, 5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;

6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

10 I beseech thee for my son n Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

11 Which in time past was to

above the angels.

191 Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lod: refresh my bowels in the Lord.

21 Having confidence in thy

obedience wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that a through your prayers I shall be given unto you.

23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Je

CHAP. I.

THE

1 Christ in these last times coming to us from the Father, 4 is preferred above the angels, both in person and office.

TO

A. D. 64. | A. D. 64.

a Nu. 12.6, p Ps.104.4. 8. Ps. 45. 6,

b De. 4. 30. 7.

1. 10.

rightness,

GOD, who at sundry times and Ga.4.4.Ep+ Gr. a in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 Hath in these last days e spoken unto us by his Son, d whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more exceilen: naine than they.

5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, m I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

6 And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

c John 1. jor,
17.& 15.15. straight-
ch. 2 3. ness.
d Ps. 2. 8.
Mat.21.38.
& 2. i8.
John 3. 35.

r Is. 61. 1.
A c. 4.27.&
10. 38.
Ps. 102.

Ro. 8. 17. 21. &c.

e John 1.3. 1 Co. 8. 6. Col. 1. 16.

Is.34.4.& 51. 6. Mat. 24.35. 2Pe. f John 1. 3.7, 10. Re. 14. & 14. 9. 21. 1.

2

Co. 4. 4. u Ps.110.1. Col. 1. 15. Mat.22.44. g John 1.4 Ma. 12.36 Col. 1. 17. Lu. 20. 42. Re. 4. 11.

h ch. 7. 27. & 9. 12, 14, 16.

ch. 10. 12. ver. 3.

Ge. 19.

16. & 32. 1, Ps. 110,1. 2,24. Ps.34. Ep. 1. 20. 7. & 91.11. ch. 8. 1. & & 103. 20,

10.12.& 12. 21. Da. 3.

2.1Pe 3.22. 28, & 7. 10.

Ep. 1. 21. 10. 11. Phi.2.9,10. Mat. 18.10.

Ps. 2. 7. Lu. 1.19.& Ac, 13. 33. 2.9, 13. Ac. ch. 5. 5. 12. 7, &c. m 2 Sa. 7. & 27. 21. 7 And of the angels he saith, 14. 1Ch.22. Ro. 8. 17. 10. & 28. 6. Ps. 89. 26, 27. Or, When he bringeth Tit.3.7.Ja.

again. n Ro. 8. 29. Col. 1 18. Re. 1. 5. De. 32. 2.6. 1 Pe.3.

43, LXX. P. 97. 7. 1 Pe. 3. 22. † Gr. unto.

17.

Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. 8 But unto the Son, he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom;

9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

11 They shall perish; but thou remainest and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, u Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be y heirs of salvation ?

CHAP. II.

1 We ought to be obedient to Christ Jesus, 5 and that because he vouchsafed to take our nature upon him, 14 as it was necessary.

THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed

3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; Nu. 15.30, h Phi. 2.7. d which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him,

31. De.4.3. & 17. 2, 5, 12.& 27.26. & 5. 1, 2. e eh. 10.24, ch. 4. 15,

29.& 12.25. 16. & 5. 2. d Mat. 4. & 7.25. 17. Ma. 1

4/God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, Ma. 16. i according to his own will?

5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world. to come whereof we speak.

6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art inindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him ?

7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy bands;

8 m Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him:

9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, P crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every

man.

for

14. ch. 1.2. e Lu. 1. 2.

20. Ac. 14.

3. & 19.11. Ro. 15. 18,

19. 1 Co. 2. a Ro. 1. 7.

4.

43.

1 Co. 1. 2.

Ac. 2.22, Ep. 4. 1.
Phi. 3. 14.

Or, dis-2 Th. 1.11. tributions. 2 Ti. 1. 9. 2 A 1 Co. 12. Pe. 1. 10. 4, 7, 11. Ep. 1.5,9. ch. 6. 5. 2 Pe. 3. 13.

Ro. 15. 8.

ch. 2. 17 & 4.14.& 5.5. &6.20.&8. Job 7. 17. 1.&9.11.& Ps.8.4,&c. 10. 21. & 144. 3.

Or, a + Gr. little while made. inferior to. 1 Sa. 12. 6.

m Mat. 28. c Nu. 12.7. 18.1Co.15. ver. 5.

27. Ep. 1dZec.6.12. 22.ch.1.13. Mat.16.18. n 1 Co. 15. 25.

o Phi. 2. 7,

8, 9.
Or, by.

p Ac. 2. 33. 9 John 3. 16. & 12.32. Ro. 5.18.& 8. 32. 2 Co. 5. 15. 1 Ti. 2.6. 1 Jo.2 2. Re. 5. 9. r Lu.24.46. s Ro.11.36.

&

e Ep. 2. 10.
3.9, ch.

1. 2.
f ver. 2.

Ex. 14. 31. Nu. 12. 7. De 3.24. Jos. 1. 2.& 8. 31. h De. 18. 15, 18, 19.

10 For it became him, whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Il For both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, Ac. 3. 151Co.3.16.

vare all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the inidst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold, I, and the children which God hath given me.

14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

15 And deliver them, who, through fear of death, were all their life time subject to bondage. 8.15. 2 Ti. 1. 10. Lu. 1. 74. Bo.8.15. 2U2

& 5.31, ch. 12. 2.

i ch. 1. 2.

& 6. 19. 2 Co. 6. 16. u Lu. 13. Ep.2 21,232. 32. ch. 5.9. z ch.10.10,

14.

1 Ti. 3. 15. 1 Pe. 2. 5. ver. 14.

Christ more worthy than Moses.

16 For verily the took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren; that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

18 For in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

СНАР. ІІІ.

1 Christ is more worthy than Moses, 7 therefore if we believe not in him, we shall be more worthy punishment than hard-hearted Israel.

WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of a the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

2 Who was faithful to him that t appointed him, as also e Moses was faithful in all his house.

3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as d he who hath builded the house, hath more honour than the house.

4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, h for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after:

6 But Christ as a Son over his own house whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

7 Wherefore, as m the Holy Ghost saith, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known

The Christian's rest.”

your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, r whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not ?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. CHAP. IV.

1 The rest of Christians is attained by faith. 12 The power of God's word. 14 By our High Priest Jesus the Son of God, subject to infirmities, but not sin, 16 we must and may go boldly to the throne of grace.

+ Gr. the word of hearing.

2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they they were shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, d And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

| Or, because

not united by faith to. bch. 3. 14.

Or, can reasonably bear with. e ch. 7. 28. f Le. 4. 3. & 9.7.&16. 6, 15,16,17. ch. 7.27. &

9.7.

ch. 3. 11.

d Ge. 2. 2. Ex. 20. 11.

5 And in this place again, If they & 31. 17. shall enter into my rest.

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

Ps. 2. 7. ch. 1. 5. Ps. 110.4. ch.7.17,21. m Mat. 26. 39, 42, 44. Ma. 14. 36, 39.John17.

f Pa. 95. 7. ch. 3. 7.

7 (Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To-day, preached. after so long a time; as it is said, To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.)

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall & after the same example of unbelief.

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 m Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his

n Ps. 22. 1. Mat. 27.46, 50. Ma.13. 34, 37.

Mat. 26. 53. Ma.14. 36.

Or, for his piety. p Mat. 25. 37. Ma.14. 33. Lu. 22. 43.John12.

y ch. 3. 6. Phi. 2. 8. s ch. 2. 10. & 11. 40. tver.6.ch. 6. 20.

Christ's priesthood.

sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. CHAP. V.

1 The authority and honour of our Sav iour's priesthood. 11 Negligence in the knowledge thereof is reproved.

OR every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

2 d Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but be that is called of God, as was Aaron:

5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee.

6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had moffered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard Pin that he feared;

8Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be ut tered, seeing ye are dull of hear

ing. u John 16. 12. 2 Pe. 3.

16.

12.

12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

13 For every one that useth milk, t is unskilful in the word of righte ousness: for he is a babo. 11. & 14. 20. Ep. 4. 14. 1 Pe. 2. 2