2 Peter 3:1

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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—

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

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.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Let brotherly love continue.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

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.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Don’t quench the Spirit.

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

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.

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.

Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

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

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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

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

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

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

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

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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.”

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.

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

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,

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.

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.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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.

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.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’

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.

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

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,

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

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;