For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

For {it is} impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

Whose end {is} destruction, whose God {is their} belly, and {whose} glory {is} in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

O that they were wise, {that} they understood this, {that} they would consider their latter end!

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

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.

And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek {was} the first of the nations; but his latter end {shall be} that he perish for ever. {the nations: the nations that warred against Israel} {that...: or, even to destruction}

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 from them who live in error. {clean: or, for a little, or, a while, as some read}

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

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what {is} that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

For {it is} impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of {this} life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

If any man see his brother sin a sin {which is} not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would {no doubt} have continued with us: but {they went out}, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast {them} into the fire, and they are burned.

From that {time} many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

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 from them who live in error. {clean: or, for a little, or, a while, as some read}

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

For some are already turned aside after Satan.

Then goeth he, and taketh {to him} seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last {state} of that man is worse than the first.

But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

But grow in grace, and {in} the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him {be} glory both now and for ever. Amen.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man {shall be satisfied} from himself.

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness {is} as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. {goodness: or, mercy, or, kindness}

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? {turn ye again: or, turn ye back} {elements: or, rudiments}

And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. {a fig tree: Gr. one fig tree}

But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

They on the rock {are they}, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if {it be} yet in vain. {so many: or, so great}

Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed {us}, so that {there should be} no remnant nor escaping?

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it {be} in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it {is} a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.

And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some {men} they follow after.

For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

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.

Of this man's seed hath God according to {his} promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

When I shall say to the righteous, {that} he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard {it}.

To Titus, {mine} own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, {and} peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;

And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, {if} the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it {is} unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it {is} fret inward, {whether} it {be} bare within or without. {whether...: Heb. whether it be bald in the head thereof, or in the forehead thereof}

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

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

Him hath God exalted with his right hand {to be} a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.