Warning Against Neglecting Salvation

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

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15 As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and (A)bear fruit (B)with patience.

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The Day of the Lord Will Come

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them (A)I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,

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Warning Against the Adulteress

(A)My son, keep my words
    and (B)treasure up my commandments with you;
(C)keep my commandments and live;
    keep my teaching as (D)the apple of your eye;

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The Value of Wisdom

(A)My son, (B)if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice (C)for understanding,
if you seek it like (D)silver
    and search for it as for (E)hidden treasures,
then (F)you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.
For (G)the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

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12 Therefore I intend (A)always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in (B)the truth that you have. 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this (C)body,[a] (D)to stir you up by way of reminder,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:13 Greek tent; also verse 14

The Supremacy of God's Son

Long ago, at many times and (A)in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but (B)in these last days (C)he has spoken to us by (D)his Son, whom he appointed (E)the heir of all things, (F)through whom also he created (G)the world.

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15 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.

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21 My son, (A)do not lose sight of these—
    keep sound wisdom and discretion,

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A Father's Wise Instruction

(A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may (B)gain[a] insight,
for I give you good (C)precepts;
    do not forsake my teaching.
When I was a son with my father,
    (D)tender, (E)the only one in the sight of my mother,
he (F)taught me and said to me,
(G)“Let your heart hold fast my words;
    (H)keep my commandments, and live.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know

Beth

How can (A)a young man keep his way pure?
    By guarding it according to your word.

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13 (A)Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. (B)Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.

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11 (A)Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God. 12 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you (B)and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

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(A)“Only take care, and (B)keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. (C)Make them known to your children and your children's children—

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And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

(A)“My son, (B)do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
    nor be weary when reproved by him.

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46 he said to them, (A)“Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, (B)that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. 47 For it is no empty word for you, (C)but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

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For since (A)the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and (B)every transgression or disobedience received a just (C)retribution, (D)how shall we escape if we (E)neglect such a great salvation? It was (F)declared at first by the Lord, and it was (G)attested to us (H)by those who heard, (I)while God also bore witness (J)by signs and wonders and various miracles and by (K)gifts of the Holy Spirit (L)distributed according to his will.

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20 (A)My son, be attentive to my words;
    incline your ear to my sayings.
21 (B)Let them not escape from your sight;
    (C)keep them within your heart.
22 For they are (D)life to those who find them,
    and healing to all their[a] flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:22 Hebrew his

18 (A)Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?

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25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For (A)if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time (B)his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, (C)“Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”

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(A)Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember (B)the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

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23 (A)Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and (B)make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.

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16 You will have your fill (A)of shame instead of glory.
    (B)Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!
(C)The cup in the Lord's right hand
    will come around to you,
    and (D)utter shame will come upon your glory!

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44 “Let these words sink into your ears: (A)The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”

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For behold, (A)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
(B)who march through the breadth of the earth,
    (C)to seize dwellings not their own.

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