2 Peter 1:13

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

Don’t quench the Spirit.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”

Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.

but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.

Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony.

The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

“Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.