But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
2 Peter 1:16 - English Standard Version 2016 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty (grandeur, authority of sovereign power). American Standard Version (1901) For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Common English Bible We didn’t repeat crafty myths when we told you about the powerful coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Quite the contrary, we witnessed his majesty with our own eyes. Catholic Public Domain Version For it was not by following fanciful doctrines that we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were made eyewitnesses of his greatness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For we have not by following artificial fables, made known to you the power, and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eyewitnesses of his greatness. |
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,
And all were astonished at the majesty of God. But while they were all marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples,
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;
not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.