Shimon Kefa, a servant and an emissary of Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of Elohim and our Saviour Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Moshiach, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the Torah, but that which is through the faith of Moshiach, the righteousness which is of Elohim by faith:
Now the names of the twelve emissaries are these; The first, Shimon, who is called Kefa, and Andrew his brother; Yaakov -Ben-Zavdai, and Yochanan his brother;
Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach:
Paul, a servant of Elohim, and an emissary of Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach, according to the faith of the elect of Elohim, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after g-dliness;
And he brought him to Y'shuw`a. And when Y'shuw`a beheld him, he said, Thou art Shimon Bar-Yochanan: thou shalt be called Kefa, which is by interpretation, 'rock'.
And Y'shuw`a, walking by the sea of Galil, saw two brethren, Shimon called Kefa, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach, to all the holy ones in Moshiach Y'shuw`a which are at Philippi, with the leaders and overseers:
Yhudah, the servant of Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach, and brother of Yaakov, to them that are sanctified by Elohim the Father, and preserved in Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach, and called: