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2 Peter 1:13

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

While I am still living here on earth, I think it is right for me to remind you of them.

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My friends, this is the second letter I have written to you. I wrote both letters to you to help your honest minds remember something.

I know that I must soon leave this body. Our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me that.

Don’t forget those who are in prison. Remember them as though you were in prison with them. And don’t forget those who are suffering. Remember them as though you were suffering with them.

That is why I want you to remember the gift God gave you. God gave you that gift when I laid my hands on you. Now I want you to use that gift and let it grow more and more, like a small flame grows into a fire.

So I say that we have confidence. And we really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord.

You already know these things. You are very strong in the truth you have. But I am always going to help you remember them.

Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel was the governor of Judah. Joshua son of Jehozadak was the high priest. The Lord made them and the rest of the people excited about working on the Temple of their God, the Lord All-Powerful.

My home, my shepherd’s tent, is being pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth someone rolls up and cuts from the loom. You ended my life in such a short time.

I know I am right to think like this about all of you because you are so close to my heart. This is because you have all played such an important part in God’s grace to me—now, during this time that I am in prison, and whenever I am defending and proving the truth of the Good News.

All I want is to know Christ and the power that raised him from death. I want to share in his sufferings and be like him even in his death.




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