2 Peter 3:1 - Wesley's New Testament 1755 This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance, 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: |
I told you before, and do tell before-hand (though now absent, as if I were present the second time) those who had sinned before, and all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither partake of other mens sins; keep thyself pure.
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, to stir up the gift of God which is in thee, by the laying on of my hands.
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Having purified your souls by obeying the truth thro' the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,
Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye look for these things, labour to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.
Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, beware, lest ye also being led away by the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness:
But, beloved, be not ye ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
I am therefore willing to remind you, who once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.