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And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

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But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

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For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Gospel of God?

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"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"

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Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

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But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

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Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

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and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;

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and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

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I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

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Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

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But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

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but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

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But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

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For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.

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But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire."

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But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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But don't forget this one thing, beloved, 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 be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

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

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

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

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