2 Peter 2:13

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.

“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.