knoweth not God; for God is 9 love. Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through 10 him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our 11 sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one 1 Or, in 12 another. No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected 13 in us: hereby know we that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us 14 of his Spirit. And we have our cuse 2 Many authori ancient ties read how can he love God whom he hath not seen? beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in 16 God. And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth 17 in him. Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement; because as he is, even so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love, because he first loved 20 us. If a man say, I love God, 3 Gr. in. and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, 2 cannot love God whom 21 he hath not seen. And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. 5 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. Here- .2 by we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do his commandments. For this is the love 3 of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is begotten of 4 God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith. And who is he that 5 overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he 6 that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not 8 with the water only, but with the water and 3 with the blood. And it is the Spirit that bear- 7 eth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are 8 three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one. If we receive the wit- 9 ness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son. He that believ- 10 eth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son. And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the 12 Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life. These things have I written 13 unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God. And 14 this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask any thing according to 1 Or, he 15 his will, he heareth us: and 18 3 Or, himself begotten of God sinneth not; THE SECOND EPISTLE OF JOHN. 4 I rejoice greatly that I have found certain of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from 5 the Father. And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that 6 we love one another. And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, 7 that ye should walk in it. For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that 1 Or, confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. Look to yourselves, 8 that ye lose not the things which 2 we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward. Whosoever 3 goeth onward 9 and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son. If any 10 one cometh unto you, and ties read bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and give him no greeting: for he that giveth him 11 greeting partaketh in his evil 2 Many ye. JOHN. 1 Or, rejoice greatly, when brethren bear wilness loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Therefore, if I come, 10 I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he Come and himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth, and casteth them out of the church. Beloved, 11 imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God. Demetrius hath the 12 witness of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, we also bear witness; and thou knowest that our witness is true. 2 Some ancient authori ties read grace. I had many things to write 13 unto thee, but I an unwilling to write them to thee with ink and pen: but I hope shortly 14 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. JUDAS, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, 2 to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and 2 kept for Jesus Christ: Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. 3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I 5 only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 1 Or, the Jesus Christ 2 Many very ancient authorl ties read 3 Gr. the 4 Or, as an 5 Gr.. 7 Or, cast Now I desire to put you in Lord remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, how that 2 the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed 6 them that believed not. And angels which kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judge7 ment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication, and gone after strange flesh, are set forth 4 as an example, suffering the punish8 ment of eternal fire. Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and 9 rail at 5 dignities. But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgement, but said, The 10 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 é de11 stroyed. Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of 12 Korah. These are they who fire) is are 8 hidden rocks 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 out their slames. own shame; wandering stars, But ye, beloved, remember 17 Or, animal 13 The passage somewhat uncertain. 14 Or, while they 15 Gr. unto all the Now unto him that is able 24 to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy, to the 25 only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and 15 for evermore. Amen. 1 OF S. JOHN THE DIVINE. THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God 1gave him to shew unto his 2 servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; 2 who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all 3 things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. 4 1 Or, gave to shew &c. 2 Gr. bond servants: through out this 3 Or, them 4 Or, which cometh 5 Many I John, your brother and 9 unto him, partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was 10 in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet saying, What thou seest, write 11 in a book, and send it to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And I turned to 12 see the voice which spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden 10 candlesticks; and in the midst of the 10 can- 13 dlesticks one like unto 11 a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle. And his head 14 and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto 15 burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. And he had in his 16 right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell 17 at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the 18 Gr. unto the ages of the Many ages. JOHN to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him which is and which was and 4 which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are 6 Gr. in. 5 before his throne; and from Jesus Christ, who is the faith-7 ful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and 5loosed us from our sins 6 by his 6 blood; and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion 7 for ever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they which pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen. 8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, 9 which is and which was and 4 which is to come, the Almighty. ancient 8 Or, 9 Or, 10 Gr. lamp- 11 Or, of man |