2 Peter 1:10-13

Make Your Calling and Election Sure

10 Therefore, brothers, 1 be all the more diligent to make your calling and q election sure, for if you practice these qualities r you will never fall. 11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you s an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

12 Therefore I intend t always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in u the truth that you have. 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this v body, 2 w to stir you up by way of reminder,

  1. Cross References
    1 Thessalonians 1:4
    For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you.
  2. Cross References
    2 Peter 3:17
    You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
    1 John 2:10
    Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
  3. Cross References
    Colossians 1:13
    He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.
    Acts 14:22
    Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
  4. Cross References
    Jude 1:5
    Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
    Romans 15:14 - 15
    I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
    Philippians 3:1
    Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
    1 John 2:21
    I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
  5. Cross References
    2 John 1:2
    Because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
  6. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 5:1
    For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
    2 Corinthians 5:4
    For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened - not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
  7. Cross References
    2 Peter 3:1
    This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder.
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