We behave undauntedly, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.
2 Peter 1:13 - Wesley's New Testament 1755 Yea I think it right, so long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by reminding you: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle (tent, body), to stir you up by way of remembrance, American Standard Version (1901) And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Common English Bible I think it’s right that I keep stirring up your memory, as long as I’m alive. Catholic Public Domain Version But I consider it just, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up with admonishments. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. |
We behave undauntedly, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.
As it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, who were all partakers of my grace, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel.
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death:
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, to stir up the gift of God which is in thee, by the laying on of my hands.
Remember them that are in bonds, as being bound with them, and them that suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth,
Knowing that shortly I must put off my tabernacle, even as the Lord Jesus Christ shewed me.
This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,