So if they tell you, “See, he’s in the wilderness! ” don’t go out; or, “See, he’s in the storerooms! ” do not believe it.
2 Peter 3:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found without spot or blemish in his sight, at peace. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 Therefore, most beloved, while awaiting these things, be diligent, so that you may be found to be immaculate and unassailable before him, in peace. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace. |
So if they tell you, “See, he’s in the wilderness! ” don’t go out; or, “See, he’s in the storerooms! ” do not believe it.
Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes.
He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.
so that you may approve the things that are superior and may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ,
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world,
Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
May he make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
to keep this command without fault or failure until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
so that the proven character of your faith #– #more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire #– #may result in praise, glory, and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written to you; in both letters, I want to stir up your sincere understanding by way of reminder,
He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.
And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure.