²And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

 ³And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

 ⁴And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

 ⁵But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

 ⁶Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

 ⁷Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

 ⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

 ⁹Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

 ¹⁰Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

 ¹¹Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

 ¹²Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

 ¹³There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

 ¹¹There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

 ¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

 ¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

 ¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

 ¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood:

 ¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways:

 ¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:

 ¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

 ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

 ²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

 ²That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

 ³Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

 ⁴Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

 ⁵Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

 ⁶And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

 ⁷For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

 ⁸And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

 ⁹Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

 ¹⁰And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

 ¹¹And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

 ¹²That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 ²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

 ²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

 ²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

 ²³For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

 ²⁴For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

 ²⁵But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

 ²⁶If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

 ²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.