For indeed, although you ought to be teachers by this time, again you have need [for someone] to teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

But solid food is for the mature, for those because of their practice have their senses trained for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

All things came to be through Him, and without Him nothing came to be which has come to be.

And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among [the] Gentiles, believed on in the world, [and] was received up in glory.

Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), why is there yet a need [for] another priest to rise, according to the order of Melchizedek, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed.

But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go forth and shine, until the day has fully come.

You therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is partial shall pass away.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

for the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ,

Not that I have already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I press on, if also I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

I press toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Epaphras greets you, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, always struggling for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.

But let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

But may the God of all grace, the [One] having called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little [while], may He Himself make you complete--He will establish, strengthen, [and] firmly ground [you].

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and fell against that house; and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. And when a flood occurred, the stream burst upon that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, but another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.

Now if anyone builds on this foundation [with] gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

storing up for yourselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those that are His," and, "Let everyone naming the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."

Seek the Lord, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He draws near to you,

let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.

I will judge you, O house of Israel, says the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.

For I desire not the death of him that dies, says the Lord.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon Me, because they have mocked Me, and they shall make lamentation for Him, as for a beloved [friend], and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

"But he answered and said, 'I will not,' but later he regretted it and went.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; but you, having seen, did not repent afterwards, that you might believe him.

And when they went out, they were preaching that [people] should repent.

Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Repent therefore and turn back, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that seasons of relaxation may come from the presence of the Lord,

And hearing these things, they remained silent, and [they] glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted even to the Gentiles repentance unto life."

So then these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

solemnly bearing witness to both Jews and to Greeks, the repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

but to those first in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, proclaiming that they must repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, without regret; but worldly sorrow produces death.

in meekness instructing those that oppose, if God perhaps may give them repentance, to a full knowledge of the truth,

and they regain their senses [and escape] out of the snare of the devil, having been captured alive by him to do his will.

by how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order that we might serve the living God?

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality, lewdness,

envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

And you [He made alive], being dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

But without faith it is impossible to please [God], for it is necessary [for] the [one] approaching God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

"Most assuredly I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Then Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me.

"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

He that believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning His Son.

He that has the Son has life; he that does not have the Son of God does not have life.