My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end;
2 Peter 1:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to arouse you by way of reminder, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle (tent, body), to stir you up by way of remembrance, American Standard Version (1901) And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Common English Bible I think it’s right that I keep stirring up your memory, as long as I’m alive. Catholic Public Domain Version But I consider it just, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up with admonishments. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. |
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end;
And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,
We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
It is right for me to feel thus about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands;
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you also are in the body.
Therefore I intend always to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.
This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder;