2 Peter 1:19 - English Standard Version 2016 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And we have the prophetic word [made] firmer still. You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place, until the day breaks through [the gloom] and the Morning Star rises (comes into being) in your hearts. American Standard Version (1901) And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: Common English Bible In addition, we have a most reliable prophetic word, and you would do well to pay attention to it, just as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, we have an even firmer prophetic word, to which you would do well to listen, as to a light shining within a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: |
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, “He is right”? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,
Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.
“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”