2 Peter 3:2 Cross References - Goodspeed

² to remember the things foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

⁷⁰ "By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this—

²⁷ And he began with Moses and all the prophets and explained to them the passages all through the Scriptures that referred to himself.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you—that everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."

¹⁸ it was in this way that God fulfilled what he by all the prophets foretold that his Christ must suffer.

²¹ Yet he must remain in heaven till the time for the universal reformation of which God told in ancient times by the lips of his holy prophets.

²⁴ Why, all the prophets from Samuel down, who have spoken, have also foretold these days. ²⁵ You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the agreement that God made with your forefathers when he said to Abraham, 'Through your posterity all the families of the earth will be blessed.' ²⁶ It was to you that God first sent his servant after he had raised him from the dead, to bless you by making every one of you turn from his wickedness."

⁴³ It is of him that all the prophets bear witness that everyone that believes in him will have his sins forgiven in his name."

²³ So they fixed a day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying, and from morning till night he explained to them the Kingdom of God and gave his testimony, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

²⁰ You are built upon the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.

¹⁰ About this salvation the prophets who prophesied of the blessing that was destined for you made the most careful investigation, ¹¹ trying to learn for what possible time the spirit of Christ within them in predicting the sufferings destined for Christ intended them and the glories that were to follow them. ¹² It was disclosed to them that they were serving not themselves but you in dealing with these things, which have now been told you by those who through the holy Spirit sent from heaven brought you the good news; things into which angels long to look!

¹⁹ So we have the message of the prophets more fully guaranteed. Please pay attention to that message as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰ You must understand this in the first place, that no prophecy in Scripture can be understood through one's own powers, ²¹ for no prophecy ever originated in the human will, but under the influence of the holy Spirit men spoke for God.

²¹ For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of uprightness than after knowing it to have turned their backs upon the sacred command with which they had been intrusted.

¹⁵ Look upon our Lord's patience as salvation, just as our dear brother Paul, with the wisdom that God gave him, wrote you to do,

⁶ We are God's children. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not a child of God will not listen to us. In this way we can tell what is inspired by truth from what is inspired by error.

¹⁷ But you, dear friends, must remember what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who have accepted the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is what inspires prophecy."