2 Peter 1:10 Cross References - BBE

¹⁰ For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

⁵ He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.

²⁴ Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

² He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

⁶ He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

⁶ He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.

³ May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you.

² Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.

⁸ Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock; ²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like: ⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good. ⁴⁹ But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

²⁴ But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God. ²⁵ And now I am conscious that you, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will not see my face again.

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose. ²⁹ Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers: ³⁰ And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory. ³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

³ Having 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; ⁴ Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;

¹³ But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: ¹⁴ And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.

¹¹ And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

¹⁹ And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;

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.

⁵ Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

¹⁷ For 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.

¹⁹ In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, ²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. ²¹ My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

¹⁰ Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth. ¹¹ I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.

¹⁴ A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.