2 Peter 3:14 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or blemish;

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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.

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.

2 Peter 3:14 Cross References

Matthew 24:26

So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.

Matthew 25:7

Then all those bridesmaids got up and trimmed their lamps.

Luke 12:43

Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives.

Luke 2:29

“Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word;

1 Corinthians 1:8

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Philippians 1:10

to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless,

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world.

Philippians 3:20

But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 6:14

to keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

2 Peter 3:1

This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; in them I am trying to arouse your sincere intention by reminding you

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

1 John 3:3

And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.