-
|2 Pedro 3:11| Since everything is coming to an end like this, what holy and saintly lives you should be living
-
-
-
|2 Pedro 3:12| while you wait for the Day of God to come, and try to hasten its coming: on that Day the sky will dissolve in flames and the elements melt in the heat.
-
-
-
|2 Pedro 3:13| What we are waiting for, relying on his promises, is the new heavens and new earth, where uprightness will be at home.
-
-
-
|2 Pedro 3:14| So then, my dear friends, while you are waiting, do your best to live blameless and unsullied lives so that he will find you at peace.
-
-
-
|2 Pedro 3:15| Think of our Lord's patience as your opportunity to be saved; our brother Paul, who is so dear to us, told you this when he wrote to you with the wisdom that he was given.
-
-
-
|2 Pedro 3:16| He makes this point too in his letters as a whole wherever he touches on these things. In all his letters there are of course some passages which are hard to understand, and these are the ones that uneducated and unbalanced people distort, in the same way as they distort the rest of scripture -to their own destruction.
-
-
-
|2 Pedro 3:17| Since you have been forewarned about this, my dear friends, be careful that you do not come to the point of losing the firm ground that you are standing on, carried away by the errors of unprincipled people.
-
-
-
|2 Pedro 3:18| Instead, continue to grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory, in time and eternity. Amen.
-
-
Português
Italiano
Espanhol
Inglês
Francês
Árabe
Mandarim
Hindu
Alemão
New Jerusalem Bible
