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for so abundantly shall be given to you the entrance of the eternal kingdom of our Lord and our Saviour Jeshu Meshiha.

For it is not after fables which are made with art that we have gone, in making known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, but as we were spectators of his majesty.

For when he received from Aloha the Father honour and glory, while a voice came to him as this, after the glorious beauty of his majesty, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I have delighted;

For not by the will of man came any prophecy, but while by the Holy Spirit led spake the holy men of God.

For if Aloha upon the angels who sinned was not lenient, but in chains of darkness shut them in the deeps, and delivered them to be kept to the judgment of pain;

-for in sight and in hearing, while (that) just (man) dwelt among them, from day to day, his righteous soul by their lawless works was tortured;-

(for) the dumb ass which spake with the voice of man rebuked the madness of the prophet.

For while they speak scoffing words of vanity, they allure with impure desires of the flesh those who almost escaped from them who have their conversation in error.

And liberty to them they promise, while they (themselves) are the servants of corruption; for the thing by which a man is overcome, to that he is subject.

20 For if [fn] they have escaped from the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jeshu Meshiha, with those very things entangled they are again over-come, their end becomes worse than the beginning.

For it had been more tolerable for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, when they knew, to turn backward from the holy commandment delivered to them.

and saying, Where is the promise of his advent ? for, since our fathers have slept, every thing (abideth) as from the beginning of the creation.

And the long-suffering of the Lord consider (to be for) salvation; as also our beloved brother Paulos according to the wisdom which hath been given to him hath written to you.

As in all his epistles he speaks concerning these; in which there is somewhat difficult for intelligence. Those who are not knowing nor settled pervert them, as also the remaining scriptures, to their perdition.

for he is the propitiation for our sins, and not on behalf of ours only, but also on behalf of the whole world.

For he who saith that he knoweth him, and his commandments keepeth not, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

But he who keepeth his word, in him is perfected truly the love of Aloha; for by this we know that we are in him.

12 I write to you, sons [fn] because forgiven to you are your sins for the sake of his name.

Love not the world, nor any thing which is in it; for whoever loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For every thing that is in the world, is the lust of the body, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of the world. These which are not of the Father, but they are from the world itself.