2 Peter 3:14 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Therefore, most beloved, while awaiting these things, be diligent, so that you may be found to be immaculate and unassailable before him, in peace.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ So, beloved, since you are expecting these things, be eager to be found by Him [at His coming] without spot or blemish and at peace [in serene confidence, free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Therefore, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found by him in peace—pure and faultless.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

2 Peter 3:14 Cross References

Matthew 24:26

Therefore, if they will have said to you, 'Behold, he is in the desert,' do not choose to go out, or, 'Behold, he is in the inner rooms,' do not be willing to believe it.

Matthew 25:7

Then all those virgins rose up and trimmed their lamps.

Luke 12:43

Blessed is that servant if, when his Lord will return, he will find him acting in this manner.

Luke 2:29

"Now you may dismiss your servant in peace, O Lord, according to your word.

1 Corinthians 1:8

And he, too, will strengthen you, even until the end, without guilt, until the day of the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:58

And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.

Philippians 1:10

so that you may be confirmed in what is better, in order that you may be sincere and without offense on the day of Christ:

Philippians 2:15

So may you be without blame, simple sons of God, without reproof, in the midst of a depraved and perverse nation, among whom you shine like lights in the world,

Philippians 3:20

But our way of life is in heaven. And from heaven, too, we await the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Thessalonians 3:13

in order to confirm your hearts without blame, in sanctity, before God our Father, unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you through all things, so that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved without blame unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 6:14

to observe the commandment, immaculately, irreproachably, unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 9:28

so also Christ was offered, one time, in order to empty the sins of so many. He shall appear a second time without sin, for those who await him, unto salvation.

James 1:27

This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the testing of your faith, which is much more precious than gold tested by fire, may be found in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 3:1

Consider, most beloved, this second epistle which I am writing to you, in which I stir up, by admonition, your sincere mind,

2 Peter 3:16

just as he also spoke in all of his epistles about these things. In these, there are certain things which are difficult to understand, which the unlearned and the unsteady distort, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who holds this hope in him, keeps himself holy, just as he also is holy.