¹⁷ In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we -- we also are in this world;

¹² God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

²⁸ And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

⁵ and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

²⁰ because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

²⁹ because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

²⁰ `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

³ and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

¹ See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;

¹⁴ if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy `are ye', because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;

¹ Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

² no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

³ for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

¹⁷ for `it is' better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

¹⁸ because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

²² dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?

¹³ for the judgment without kindness `is' to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

²⁵ sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

²² but I say to you, to Tyre and Sidon it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than for you.

²⁴ but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'

³⁶ `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

² looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

³ for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

⁷ and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

¹⁵ verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.