2 Peter 1:21 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²¹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For no prophecy ever originated because some man willed it [to do so–it never came by human impulse], but men spoke from God who were borne along (moved and impelled) by the Holy Spirit.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Common English Bible

²¹ because no prophecy ever came by human will. Instead, men and women led by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For prophecy was not conveyed by human will at any time. Instead, holy men were speaking about God while inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.

2 Peter 1:21 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:2

And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.

1 Kings 13:1

And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the man of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

1 Kings 17:18

3 And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth.

1 Kings 17:24

And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the horses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish.

2 Kings 4:22

7 And when she came to the man of God to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

2 Kings 4:7

2 And he said to Giezi his servant Call this Sunamitess. And when he had called her, and she stood before him,

2 Kings 4:9

4 And he said : What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.

2 Kings 6:10

5 And the servant of the man of God rising early, went out, and saw an army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and he told him, saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?

2 Kings 6:15

0 And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria.

1 Chronicles 23:14

9 The sons of Hebron: Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the third, Jecmaam the fourth.

2 Chronicles 8:14

And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to try him with hard questions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and camels, which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she proposed to him all that was in her heart.

Jeremiah 23:26

4 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.

Ezekiel 1:3

1 And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:

Micah 1:1

Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people even to Jerusalem.

Micah 3:7

And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into spades: nation shall not take sword against nation: neither shall they learn war any more.

Numbers 16:28

3 And they went down alive into hell the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.

Mark 12:36

4 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.

Luke 1:70

8 Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:

Acts 1:16

4 And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

Acts 28:25

Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy scriptures,

Acts 3:18

6 To you first God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you; that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.

Deuteronomy 33:1

Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.

Hebrews 10:15

4 And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:

Hebrews 3:7

6 For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Hebrews 9:8

7 For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.

Joshua 14:6

1 As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view the land : the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as well to fight as to march.

1 Peter 1:11

0 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you,

Revelation 19:10

9 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse, and with his army.