Good News TranslationMy dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written you. In both letters I have tried to arouse pure thoughts in your minds by reminding you of these things.
New Revised Standard Version
This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; in them I am trying to arouse your sincere intention by reminding you
Contemporary English Version
My dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to encourage you to do some honest thinking. I don't want you to forget
New American Bible
This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; through them by way of reminder I am trying to stir up your sincere disposition,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:
second epistle.
2 Corinthians 13:2 I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.
1 Peter 1:1,2 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect, . . .
I stir.
2 Peter 1:13-15 But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. . . .
2 Timothy 1:6 For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee by the imposition of my hands.
pure.
Psalm 24:4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.
Psalm 73:1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.
1 Timothy 5:22 Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself chaste.
1 Peter 1:22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:
way.
2 Peter 1:12 For which cause, I will begin to put you always in remembrance of these things: though indeed you know them and are confirmed in the present truth.