8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover: covers the multitude of sins.

9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God

judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, [as] unto a faithful Creator.

CHAP. V..

I exhort, who am also an elder,

in all things may be glorified through THE elders which are among you Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. and a witness of the sufferings of Amen. Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the 4 And when the chief Shepherd name of Christ, happy are ye; for shall appear, ye shall receive the spirit of glory and of God resteth crown of glory that fadeth fadeth not upon you on their part he is evil away. spoken of, but on your part he is glorified].

15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's

matters.

16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

17 For the time is come that

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5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you [be subject] one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

8 καλύψει Rec. kaλútтeι Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, A, B, K, etc., Vulgate, P. Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, etc.

14 κатà μÈν....doέáčeraι Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, , A, B, etc., Vulgate, P. Syriac, Coptic, Æthiopic, Armenian, etc.

19 s Rec. Omitted by Lach. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, N, A, B, etc., Vulgate, Coptic, etc.

5 Vпотаσσóμevο Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, &, A, B, 13, etc., Vulgate, P. Syriac, Coptic, Armenian.

8 Be sober, be vigilant; [because] 11 To him be [glory and] doyour adversary the devil as a roaring minion for ever and ever. Amen. lion, walketh about, seeking whom 12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother may devour: unto you, as I suppose, I have 9 Whom resist stedfast in the written briefly, exhorting and testifaith, knowing that the same afflic-fying that this is the true grace of tions are accomplished in your breth- God wherein ye stand.

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ren that are in the world.

10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us: you unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, [will] make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and SO doth Marcus my son.

14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ [Jesus]. [Amen.]

THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL

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PETER.

CHAP. I.

SIMON Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.

hath called us to: by his own glory and virtue:

4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that 6 And to knowledge temperance; pertain unto life and godliness, and to temperance patience; and to through the knowledge of him that patience godliness;

8 or Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles. 10 μâs Rec. vuâs Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles.

10 καταρτίσαι, στηρίξαι, σθενώσαι, θεμελιώσαι Rec. καταρτίσει κ. τ. λ. Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles.

11 ý dóέa kaì Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, A, B, 23, etc. 14 'Inooû Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, A, B, 36, P. Syriac, Ethiopic, etc.

14 auny Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles.

3 dia dóέns kai ȧperns Rec. idía dóέŋ kaì ảperî Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles,

7 And to godliness brotherly kind- came such a voice to him from the ness; and to brotherly kindness excellent glory, This is my beloved charity. Son, in whom I am well pleased.

UT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long you, who privily shall bring in as I am in this tabernacle, to stir damnable heresies, even denying you up by putting you in remem- the Lord that bought them, and brance; bring upon themselves swift destruction.

12 our ȧμeλnow Rec. ueλnow Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, , A, B, C, etc., Vulgate, Coptic, Sahidic, Armenian, etc.

21 of ayol Rec. anò Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, B, etc., Ph. Syriac, Coptic.

2 anwλelais Rec. doeλyeíais Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, ~, A, B, C, G, K, etc., Versions.

4 oeipais Rec. σipois Lach. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, N, A, B, C.

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5 And spared not the old world, | of unrighteousness, as they that count but saved Noah the eighth person, a it pleasure to riot in the day time. preacher of righteousness, bringing Spots they are and blemishes, sporting in the flood upon the world of the themselves with their own deceivungodly; ings: in their love-feasts while they feast with you;

6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 But was rebuked for his ini9 The Lord knoweth how to de-quity: the dumb ass speaking with liver the godly out of temptations, man's voice forbad the madness of the and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them [before the Lord].

12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly even perish in their own corruption;

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17 These are wells without water, clouds: and mists that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved [for ever].

18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped are a little way escaping from them who live in error.

19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through 13 And shall receive the reward the knowledge of the Lord and

11 Tapà Kupio Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, A, etc., Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian.

12 KαTα 0αρýσоvrai Rec. Kai poaphoovrai Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, καταφθαρήσονται

, A, B, C, etc., Ph. Syriac, etc.

13 árárais Rec. άyárais Lach. T.S.Green, Tregelles, B, m, Vulgate, Syriac, Sahidic. 17 vepédai Rec. kai ouixat Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, &, A, B, C, etc., Vulgate, Ph. Syriac, Coptic, Sahidic, Ethiopic, etc.

17 eis aiova Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, &, B, Syriac, Ph. Syriac, Coptic, Sahidic, etc.

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18 OTOS Rec. Xiyos Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, A, B, etc., Vulgate,

Syriac, Ph. Syriac, Coptic, Sahidic, etc.

18 áñоþvyóvтas Rec. аπоþεúуovTas Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, ~, A, B,

Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 [But] it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

THIS

CHAP. III.

HIS second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by of remembrance:

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2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles: your apostles, that of the Lord and Saviour: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same: his word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to usward: you-ward], not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief [in the night]; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing [then] that all these things shall be [thus] dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation;

22 dè Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles.

2 μv Rec. vuôv Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles,, A, B, C, G, K, etc., Vulgate, Armenian, etc.

7 avro Beza, Elz. auroû Rec. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles,, B, C, G, K, etc., Syriac, Ethiopic, etc.

9 nuas Rec. vuâs Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles.

10 év VUKTí Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, &, A, B, etc. m, Syriac, Coptic, Sahidic, Armenian, etc.

11 ouv Rec. our Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, B, C, etc., Ph. Syriac, Armenian, etc.