◄ 2 Peter 1:13 ►
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Good News Translation
I think it only right for me to stir up your memory of these matters as long as I am still alive.

New Revised Standard Version
I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to refresh your memory,

Contemporary English Version
In fact, I think I should keep on reminding you until I leave this body.

New American Bible
I think it right, as long as I am in this “tent,” to stir you up by a reminder,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.

as long.

2 Peter 1:14 Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

2 Corinthians 5:1-4,8 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. . . .

Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

to stir.

2 Peter 3:1 Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:

Haggai 1:14 And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of Salathiel governor of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people: and they went in, and did the work in the house of the Lord of Hosts their God.

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.

by.

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.

Context
Partakers of the Divine Nature
12For 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. 13But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. 14Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.…
Cross References
Isaiah 38:12
My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:4
For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Philippians 1:7
As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

Philippians 3:10
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,

2 Peter 1:14
Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

2 Peter 3:1
Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:

2 Peter 1:12
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