2 Peter 3:1

Good News Translation (US Version)

My dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written you. In both letters I have tried to arouse pure thoughts in your minds by reminding you of these things.

Cross References

2 Timothy 1:6

For this reason I remind you to keep alive the gift that God gave you when I laid my hands on you.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your heart.

1 Timothy 5:22

Be in no hurry to lay hands on people to dedicate them to the Lord's service. Take no part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

Matthew 5:8

“Happy are the pure in heart; they will see God!

Psalm 73:1

God is indeed good to Israel, to those who have pure hearts.

Psalm 24:4

Those who are pure in act and in thought, who do not worship idols or make false promises.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I want to tell those of you who have sinned in the past, and all the others; I said it before during my second visit to you, but I will say it again now that I am away: the next time I come nobody will escape punishment.

Hebrews 6:9

But even if we speak like this, dear friends, we feel sure about you. We know that you have the better blessings that belong to your salvation.

1 Peter 2:11

I appeal to you, my friends, as strangers and refugees in this world! Do not give in to bodily passions, which are always at war against the soul.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not forget one thing, my dear friends! There is no difference in the Lord's sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same.

2 Peter 3:14

And so, my friends, as you wait for that Day, do your best to be pure and faultless in God's sight and to be at peace with him.

2 Peter 3:17

But you, my friends, already know this. Be on your guard, then, so that you will not be led away by the errors of lawless people and fall from your safe position.

Jude 1:5

For even though you know all this, I want to remind you of how the Lord once rescued the people of Israel from Egypt, but afterward destroyed those who did not believe.