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2 Peter 1:6

James Moffatt - New Testament

intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,

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Inasmuch as his power divine has bestowed on us every requisite for life and piety by the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence —

Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised.

Hold out stedfast and you win your souls.

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.

Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness.

gentleness, self-control: — there is no law against those who practise such things.

This is what shows the patience of the saints — they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus.

I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars;

he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious;

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

But if we hope for something that we do not see, we wait for it patiently.

eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

As for the seed in the good soil, that means those who hear and hold fast the word in a good and sound heart and so bear fruit stedfastly.

All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope.

Whoever is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes: whoever kills with the sword, by the sword must he be killed. This is what shows the patience and the faith of the saints.

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

Thus it was that Abraham by his stedfastness obtained what he had been promised.

so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,

for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.

Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

And so it is — provided it goes with a contented spirit;

Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety,

And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? — it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."

but with good deeds (as befits women who make a religious profession).

for kings and all in authority, that we may lead a tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

May the Lord direct your hearts towards God's love and towards Christ's patience!

So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.




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