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And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity will cover a multitude of sins.

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If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you. On their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

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Yet if any man suffereth as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

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For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first beginneth at us, what will be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?

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And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?

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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

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But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

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And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

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And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

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And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

δὲ de “then”δὲ de “then”

Indeed, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

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Moreover, I will endeavor that ye may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

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But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will privately bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

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The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished:

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But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

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But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption:

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But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice, forbad the madness of the prophet.

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For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

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But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

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But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved to fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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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 melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein will be burned up.

δὲ de “however”δὲ de “then”

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwelleth righteousness.

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But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

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That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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