2 Peter 3:14
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
KJV
Διό, ἀγαπητοί, ταῦτα προσδοκῶντες σπουδάσατε ἄσπιλοι καὶ ἀμώμητοι αὐτῷ εὑρεθῆναι ἐν εἰρήνῃ,
Greek NT
Propter quod, carissimi, hæc exspectantes, satagite immaculati, et inviolati ei inveniri in pace :
Vulgate
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.
ASV
Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.
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4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
This assurance of perseverance, however, so far from making true believers proud and carnally self-assured, is rather the true root of humility, of childlike respect, of genuine godliness, of endurance in every struggle, of fervent prayers, of steadfastness in cross-bearing and in confessing the truth, and of well-founded joy in God. Reflecting on this benefit provides an incen…
Cross-references
- 1Chr 16:33 — Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
- 1Cor 1:8 — Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1Cor 1:8 — Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1Cor 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- 1Cor 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- 1John 3:3 — And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
- 1John 3:3 — And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
- 1Thess 1:10 — And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
- 1Thess 3:13 — To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
- 1Thess 5:23 — And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1Thess 5:23 — And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1Tim 6:14 — That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
- 2Cor 5:9 — Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
- 2Pet 1:5 — And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
- 2Pet 1:5 — And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
- 2Tim 2:15 — Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
- 2Tim 2:19 — Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
- Acts 13:43 — Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
- Col 1:22 — In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
- Deut 6:17 — Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
- Eph 1:4 — According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
- Eph 5:27 — That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
- Heb 6:11 — And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
- Heb 9:28 — So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
- Heb 10:25 — Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
- Heb 11:6 — But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
- Heb 12:15 — Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
- Jas 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- Luke 1:6 — And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- Luke 2:29 — Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
- Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
- Luke 12:43 — Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
- Luke 21:34 — And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
- Luke 22:32 — But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
- Matt 25:7 — Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
- Phil 1:10 — That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
- Phil 1:27 — Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striv
- Phil 2:15 — That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
- Phil 2:15 — That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
- Song 4:7 — Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.