tor of the new testament, that by means 6or,purified. of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testa for him he will appear the second time without sin to salvation. CHAP. X. sacrifice of Christ's body once offered, 14 for 1 The weakness of the law-sacrifices. 10 The ever hath taken away sins. 19 An exhortation to hold fast the faith, with patience and thanksgiving. F OR 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 to them perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered ? because that the worshipers once cleansed, would 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 ment, they who are called may receive 7 or, purple. the world, he saith, a Sacrifice and offerthe promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity 5 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 Hence even the first testament was not 6 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 7 scarlet wool, and i Ex. 24. 8. k 1 John 2. 1. ing thou wouldst not, but a body 1 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 concerning me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt-offerings and offering for sin thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure in them; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and 1 Pet. 3. 18. will, O God. He taketh away the first, and all the people, i 20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined to you. 21 Moreover, he sprinkled likewise with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And almost all things are by the law cleansed 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 hath 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: a Ps.40.6,&c. that he may establish the second. 10 By 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 often 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 waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15 Of this the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for 2 after that he had said before, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith 25 Nor yet that he should offer him- Jer. 31. 33. the Lord, I will put my laws into their self often, as the high priest entereth 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. 3 or, liberty. 4 or, new 27 And as it is appointed to men once made. to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look! 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, 3 boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath 4 consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having a high priest over the house of God; A. D. 64. 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, d c. 6. 4. 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 excite to love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26 Ford if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful apprehension of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. Deut. 19.15. John 8. 17. 2 Cor. 13. 4. Matt. 18. 16. ƒDeut. 32.35. Rom. 12.19. 5 Deut. 32.36. Ps. 50. 4. or, suffer ed with me. Hab. 2. 3.4. 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 2 appeared. 4 By faith Abel offered to God s more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead 3 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 by God of things not seen as yet, 4 moved 28 He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy under two or three wit-i Rom. 1. 17. with fear, prepared an ark to the saving nesses: Gal. 3. 11. 29 Of how much more severe punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought 6 or, he. worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanc-1 or,ground, tified, an unholy thing, and hath done or, confi. despite to the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that hath said, f Vengeance belongeth to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people. dence. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the a Gen. 1. 1. hands of the living God. 32 But call to remembrance the for- 2or, appear. mer days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of af-Gen. 4. 4. flictions; 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. 3or, is yet spoken of. C Gen. 5. 24. 34 For ye shad compassion of me in a Gen. 6. 13. my bonds, and took joyfully the seizing of your goods, knowing in yourselves 4 or, being 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 may receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he that is coming will come, and will not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if 6 any man shall draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. CHAP. XI. wary. Gen. 12. 4. Gen. 17.19. & 21. 2. 5 Gr. accord ing to faith. Gen. 23. 4. & 47, 9. 1 Chr.29,15. Ps. 39. 12. & 119. 19. h Gen. 22. 9. 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to remove into a place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out not knowing whither he was going. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign 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 Sarah 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 there sprang even from 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 5 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, they might have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a 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, 186 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to R 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, 7 made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave command-7 ment concerning his bones. 23 By faith Moses when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was as proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's P commandment. 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Gen. 48. 15. m Gen.47.31. 25. or, remem bered. Ex. 2. 2. Acts 7. 20. or, beautiful. P Ex. 1. 16. Ex. 2. 11. 9 or, for 26 Esteeming the reproach 9 of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect to the recom-10 pense 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. passo 28 Through faith he kept the ver, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first-born should touch them. 8 29 By faith they passed through the Christ. Ex. 12. 21, &c. were diso good report through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having 11 provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. CHAP. XII. 1 An exhortation to constant faith, patience, and godliness. 22 A commendation of the new testament above the old. WHEREFORE, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking to Jesus the i 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. 4 Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. 6 For whom the Lord loveth he Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyp-11 or, fore- chasteneth, and scourgeth every son tians essaying to do were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encompassed seven days. 31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them 10 that believed not, as seen. ner. 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 are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye she had received the spies with peace. 1or, begin. bastards and not sons. 32 And what shall I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Sampson, and of Jephthah, 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, became valiant ❝ Job 5. 17. Prov. 3. 11. 9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to 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: nev in fight, turned to flight the armies of the Rev. 3. 19. ertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peacealiens. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured, 36 And others had trial of cruel mock- 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 al Rom.12.18. 3 or, fall able fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised by it. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13. And make 2 straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14 d Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 Looking diligently, lest any man 3 fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you, and by it many be defiled; 17 For ye know that afterward, ƒ when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no 4 place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. 18 For ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and to 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: shaken. 5 Let your manner of life 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 to me. 7 Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their manner of life. 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever. 9 Be not carried about with divers and 2 strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not 21 And so terrible was the sight, that 7 or, may be profited them that have been occupied in Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble :) 22 But ye are come to mount Sion, and to 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, who are 5 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 spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 8 or, let us them. 10 We have an altar, of which they have no right to eat who serve the taber m Deut. 4.24.nacle. & 9. 3. a Rom.12.10. Rom.12.13. 1 Pet. 4. 9. < Gen. 18. 3. & 19. 2. 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but Deut. 31. 8. also heaven. Josh. 1. 5. < Ps. 56. 4. 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 to him without the camp, bearing his reproach. 14 For here we have 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, 3 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 4 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 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that 7 are shaken, as of things that are made, 11.118. 6. with joy, and not with grief: for that is that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a king-lor, are the dom which cannot be moved, 8 let us guides. have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. 2or, foreign. Lev. 14. 11. 29 For our God is a consuming fire. 12. & 6. 30. CHAP. XIII. & 16. 27. Mic. 2. 10 h Hos. 14. 2. 1 Divers admonitions, as to charity, 4 to hon. fessing to. 2 Be not forgetful to entertaini Phil. 4. 18. strangers: for by this some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 1Thes.5.12. 4 or, guide. 5 or, testa- 4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and 6 or, doing. adulterers God will judge. 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 5 covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, 6 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 to 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. The general Epistle of JAMES. CHAP. I. A. D. 60. 1 We are to rejoice under the cross. 5 To ask tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers 1 temptations. 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 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 worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness Rom. 5. 3. and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. b Matt. 7. 7. 4 But let patience have her perfect 2 or, glory. work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him. Isa. 40. 6. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wa-d Job 5. 17. vering. 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 3 or, evils. shall receive any thing from the Lord. 8 A man unsettled in his opinions is unstable in all his ways. 9 Let the brother of low degree 2 re joice in that he is exalted: 10 But the rich, in that he is made 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and immediately forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But he who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his 4 deed. 26 If any man among you seemeth 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, low: because as the flower of the grass Prov. 17.27. and to keep himself unspotted from the he shall pass away. 11 For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. Matt. 7. 21. Rom. 2. 13. 12 d Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord 4or, doing. hath promised to them that love him. 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with 3 evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Lev. 19. 15. & 16. 19. Prov. 24.23. gogue. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it 1Gr. syna. 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 turn-2or, well, or, ing. seemly. 18 Of his own will he hath begotten! world. CHAP. II. 1 It is not agreeable to Christian profession to regard the rich, and to despise the poor brethren: 13 rather we are to be loving and merciful; 14 and not to boast of faith, where no deeds are: 17 which is but a dead faith, 19 the faith of demons, 21 not of Abraham, 25 and Rahab. MYour Jesus Christ, the Lord of Y brethren, have not the faith of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come into your 1 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 to him, Sit thou here 2 in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: 4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil 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? |