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Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Sauiour Iesus Christ,

Who gaue himselfe for vs, that he might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purifie vnto himselfe a peculiar people, zealous of good workes.

For we our selues also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceiued, seruing diuers lusts and pleasures, liuing in malice and enuy, hatefull, and hating one another.

But auoyd foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and striuings about the lawe; for they are vnprofitable and vaine.

When I shall send Artemas vnto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come vnto mee to Nicopolis: for I haue determined there to winter.

And let ours also learne to maintaine good workes for necessarie vses, that they be not vnfruitfull.

For wee haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the Saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

Yet for loues sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Iesus Christ.

I beseech thee for my sonne Onesimus, whome I haue begotten in my bonds,

For perhaps hee therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receiue him for euer:

But withall prepare mee also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be giuen vnto you.

For vnto which of the Angels said he at any time, Thou art my sonne, this day haue I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Sonne.

But vnto the Sonne, he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for euer and euer: a scepter of righteousnesse is the scepter of thy kingdome.

Are they not all ministring spirits, sent foorth to minister for them, who shall be heires of saluation?

For if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast, and euery transgression and disobedience receiued a iust recompense of reward:

For vnto the Angels hath he not put in subiection the world to come, whereof we speake.

Thou hast put all things in subiection vnder his feete. For in that he put all in subiection vnder him, hee left nothing that is not put vnder him. But now wee see not yet all things put vnder him.

But wee see Iesus, who was made a little lower then the Angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that hee by the grace of God should taste death for euery man.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sonnes vnto glory, to make the Captaine of their saluation perfect through sufferings.

For both hee that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to cal them brethren,