1:1 The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw. 1:2 How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation. 1:3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument. 1:4 For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

2:1 I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest. 2:2 And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly. 2:3 For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back. 2:4 As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.

37:1 <Of David.> Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil. 37:2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants. 37:3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness. 37:4 So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires. 37:5 Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it. 37:6 And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun. 37:7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs. 37:8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin. 37:9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

17:5 And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater. 17:6 And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done. 17:7 But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal, 17:8 Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours? 17:9 Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered? 17:10 In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.

1:1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, in the hope of the life which is in Christ Jesus, 1:2 To Timothy, my well-loved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1:3 I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day 1:4 Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy; 1:5 Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you. 1:6 For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power. 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control. 1:8 Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God; 1:9 Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, 1:10 But has now been made clear by the revelation of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who put an end to death and made life unending come to light through the good news, 1:11 Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher; 1:12 And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day. 1:13 Keep the form of those true words which you had from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 1:14 That good thing which was given to you keep safe, through the Holy Spirit which is in us.