He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
2 Peter 3:1 - Revised Standard Version This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition BELOVED, I am now writing you this second letter. In [both of] them I have stirred up your unsullied (sincere) mind by way of remembrance, American Standard Version (1901) This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance; Common English Bible My dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both letters to stir up your sincere understanding with a reminder. Catholic Public Domain Version Consider, most beloved, this second epistle which I am writing to you, in which I stir up, by admonition, your sincere mind, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind: |
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them—
Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor participate in another man's sins; keep yourself pure.
Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands;
Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.
Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.
Therefore, beloved, since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest you be carried away with the error of lawless men and lose your own stability.
But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.