2 Peter 3:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Tim 1:6 : 6 For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.
  • 2 Pet 1:12-15 : 12 For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith. 13 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; 14 For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. 15 And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.
  • 1 Pet 1:1-2 : 1 Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
  • Ps 73:1 : 1 Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.
  • 1 Tim 5:22 : 22 Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.
  • 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

  • 81%

    11For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

    12For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

    13And 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;

    14For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

    15And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.

    16For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.

  • 2 Tim 1:3-6
    4 verses
    77%

    3I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day

    4Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

    5Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.

    6For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.

  • 17But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 22And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • 73%

    17For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

    18But 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.

  • 3Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

  • 2Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

  • 6If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

  • 72%

    1Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,

    2That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;

  • 8And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

  • 72%

    13So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

    14Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • 72%

    14For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

    15And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

  • 6But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

  • 2You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

  • 15But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

  • 14I am writing these things to you, though I am hoping to come to you before long;

  • 3My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.

  • 15And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;

  • 2 Cor 13:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain.

    2I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity;

  • 8For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

  • 13For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:

  • 5Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?

  • 17For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and true child in the Lord; he will make clear to you my ways in Christ, even as I am teaching everywhere in every church.

  • 3It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,

  • 2 Pet 1:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

    2May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

  • 7And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

  • 15So then, brothers, be strong in purpose, and keep the teaching which has been given to you by word or by letter from us.

  • 2My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.

  • 3I give praise to my God at every memory of you,

  • 70%

    12And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

    13So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

  • 22But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

  • 1Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

  • 17Give you comfort and strength in every good work and word.

  • 19I make this request more strongly, in the hope of coming back to you more quickly.