2 Peter 3:14
12 as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.
13 But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
Therefore, beloved, as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace—spotless and blameless in His sight.
15 Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him.
16 He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Therefore, beloved, as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace—spotless and blameless in His sight.
- KJV
- Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
- WEB
- Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
- ASV
- Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.
- DARBY
- Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless;
- BLB
- Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent, without spot and without blemish, to be found by Him in peace.
- ÅB
- Derfor, elskede, da dere venter dette, streb etter å bli funnet uten flekk og lyte for ham i fred,
- OTB
- Derfor, elskede, mens dere venter på disse tingene, vær ivrige etter å bli funnet av ham uten flekk og lyte, i fred,
- B1930
- Derfor, elskede, da I venter dette, så legg vinn på å bli funnet uten flekk og lyte for ham i fred,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 3:13
so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
Read in contextPhilippians 1:10
so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
Read in context1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
Read in context1 Corinthians 1:8
He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Read in contextPhilippians 2:15
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Read in context2 Peter 1:5–10
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
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