2 Peter 3:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διό, ἀγαπητοί, ταῦτα προσδοκῶντες, σπουδάσατε ἄσπιλοι, καὶ ἀμώμητοι, αὐτῷ εὑρεθῆναι ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

Transliteration

Therefore, agapētoi, these prosdokōntes, spoudasate aspliloi, and amōmētoi, by-him to-be-heurethēnai in eirēnē.

Grammar Details

• *agapētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - beloved ones
• *prosdokōntes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - expecting/waiting for
• *spoudasate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - be diligent/make every effort
• *aspliloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - spotless/unblemished
• *amōmētoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - blameless/without reproach
• *heurethēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be found
• *eirēnē*: dative, feminine, singular - peace/harmony

Word Meanings

• *agapētoi*: beloved ones/dear friends
• *prosdokōntes*: expecting/waiting for/looking for/anticipating
• *spoudasate*: be diligent/make every effort/be zealous
• *aspliloi*: spotless/unblemished/without stain
• *amōmētoi*: blameless/without reproach/faultless
• *heurethēnai*: to be found/discovered/recognized
• *eirēnē*: peace/harmony/tranquility

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 15:58 : 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.
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 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.
• 1 Thess 5:23 : 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.
• Phil 1:10 : 10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
• Phil 2:15 : 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 3:20 : 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
• Matt 24:26 : 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
• Luke 2:29 : 29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
• Luke 12:43 : 43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Heb 9:28 : 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.
• Jas 1:27 : 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.
• 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
• 1 John 3:3 : 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.