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bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into II your house, and give him no greeting: for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.

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Having many things to write unto you, I would not write them with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face 13 to face, that your joy may be fulfilled. The children of thine elect sister salute thee.

THE THIRD EPISTLE OF

JOHN.

1Or, rejoice greatly, when brethren come and bear wit

ness

Some ancient authorities read grace. Or, these things, that I

may hear

THE elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom 1 I love in truth.

Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest 2 prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren 3 came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth. Greater 2joy have I 4 none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in what- 5 soever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal; who bare witness 6 to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God: because that for the sake of the Name 7 they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. We therefore ought to welcome such, that we 8 may be fellow-workers with the truth.

I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Dio- 9 trephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Therefore, if 10 I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth, and casteth them out of the church. Beloved, imitate not that which 11

is evil, but that which is good.

He that doeth

good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not 12 seen God. Demetrius hath the witness of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, we also bear witness; and thou knowest that our witness is true.

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I had many things to write unto thee, but I am unwilling to write them to thee with ink 14 and pen: but I hope shortly to see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be unto thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF

JUDE.

1 Gr. bondservant.

2 Or, to them

that are beloved

in God the Father, and

kept for Jesus Christ, being called

JUDAS, a 'servant of Jesus Christ, and brother 1 of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: Mercy unto you and peace and love be mul- 2 tiplied.

Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to 3 write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints. For there 4 are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old set forth unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our Or, the only God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Master, and

our Lord Jesus Christ

4 Many very ancient authorities read

Jesus.

5 Gr. the second time.

Now I desire to put you in remembrance, 5 though ye know all things once for all, how that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And angels which kept 6 not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgement of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the 7 cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication, and ishment gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an

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example, suffering the punishment of eternal 8 fire. Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought 9 dominion, and rail at 'dignities. But Michael Gr. glories. the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgement, but said, 10 The Lord rebuke thee. But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed. I Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and 3ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of 12 Korah. These are they who are hidden rocks Or, spots in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked 13 up by the roots; wild waves of the sea, foaming

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2

Or,corrupted

Or, cast them selves away through

out their own shame; wandering stars, for Gr. shames. whom the blackness of darkness hath been re14 served for ever. And to these also Enoch, the

seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold,

the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy Gr. his holy 15 ones, to execute judgement upon all, and to con- myriads. vict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners 16 have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling words), shewing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

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But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles 18 of our Lord Jesus Christ; how that they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers,

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