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And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

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If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.

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But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.

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For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?

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And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?

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And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

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And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

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So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

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And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

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And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

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And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

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And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.

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But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly,

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The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

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But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

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But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

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But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.

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For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

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They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

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But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

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But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

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But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

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But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

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But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

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We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

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