2 Peter 1:4 Cross References - Rotherham

⁴ Through which, his precious, and very great, promises, have, unto us, been given, in order that, through these, ye might become sharers in a divine nature––escaping the corruption that is in the world by coveting.

²⁵ And I will throw upon you clean water, and ye shall be clean,––From all your uncleannesses and from all your manufactured gods, will I cleanse you; ²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, And, a new spirit, will I put within you,––And I will take away the heart of stone, out of your flesh, And will give you a heart of flesh; ²⁷ And, my spirit, will I put within you, And will cause, That, in my statutes, ye shall walk, And, my regulations, ye shall observe, and do;

¹² But, as many as did receive him, he gave, unto them, authority, children of God, to become,––unto them who were believing on his name: ¹³ Who––not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but––of God, were born.

⁴ Who, indeed, are Israelites, whose are the sonship, and the glory, and the covenants, and the legislation, and the divine service, and the promises,

²⁰ For, how many soever be the promises of God, in him, is the Yea,––wherefore also, through him, [be] the Amen, unto God, for glory, through us.

¹⁸ And, we all, with unveiled face, receiving and reflecting, the glory of [the] Lord, into the same image, are being transformed, from glory into glory,––even as from a Spirit that is Lord.

¹⁷ Wherefore come ye forth out of their midst, and be separated,––saith [the] Lord,––and, one impure, do not touch; and, I, will give you welcome,

¹⁶ Now, unto Abraham, were spoken the promises––and unto his seed; ––He saith not––and unto thy seeds, as of many, but, as of one––and unto thy seed, which is Christ:

⁸ Because, he that soweth into his own flesh, out of the flesh, shall reap corruption, whereas, he that soweth into the Spirit, out of the Spirit, shall reap age–abiding life.

²³ And were to be getting young again in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness.

¹⁰ And having put on the new––who is being moulded afresh unto personal knowledge, after the image of him that hath created him,––

⁶ But, now, hath he attained unto, a more distinguished public ministry,––by as much as of a better covenant also he is, mediator, which indeed, upon better promises, hath been legislated. ⁷ For, if, that first, had been, faultless, not, in that case, for a second, had there been sought, a place. ⁸ For, finding fault with them, he saith––Lo! days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude, for the house of Israel and the house of Judah, a covenant of a new sort: ⁹ Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by their hand, to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt,––because, they, abode not in my covenant, and, I, disregarded them, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ Because, this, is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord:––giving my laws into their understanding, upon their hearts also, will I inscribe them: and I will become their God, and, they, shall become my people; ¹¹ And in nowise shall they teach––every one his fellow–citizen, and every one his brother, saying,––Get to know the Lord! Because, all, shall know me, from the least unto the greatest of them; ¹² Because, propitious, will I be as to their unrighteousnesses, and, of their sins, in nowise will I be mindful, any more.

¹⁵ And, for this cause, of a new covenant, is he mediator,––to the end that, death coming to pass for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the age–abiding inheritance;

¹⁰ For, they, indeed, for a few days, according to that which seemed good to them, were administering discipline; but, he, unto that which is profitable, with view to our partaking of his holiness:

¹ Whence wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence––due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members? ² Ye covet––and have not, ye commit murder, and are jealous––and cannot obtain,––ye fight and war. Ye have not––because ye do not really ask, ³ Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend [it].

² To the end that, no longer, in men’s covetings, but in God’s will, ye may live, the still remaining time. ³ For, sufficient, is the bygone time––to have wrought out, the will of the nations, having gone on in wanton ways, covetings, wine–drinkings, revellings, drinking–bouts, and impious idolatries:––

¹ Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, unto them who have obtained, equally precious, faith, with us, in the righteousness of our God, and Saviour Jesus Christ,

¹⁸ For, great swelling words of vanity, uttering, they entice with carnal covetings––in wanton ways––them who are, well–nigh, escaping from the men who, in error, have their behaviour; ¹⁹ Promising, freedom to them, they themselves, being all the while, slaves of corruption,––for, by whom one hath been defeated, by the same, hath he become enslaved,–– ²⁰ For, if, having escaped from the defilements of the world by a personal knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but, by the same having again become entangled, they are defeated, the, last, state hath become, for them, worse than, the first;

¹⁵ Be not loving the world, nor yet the things that are in the world: if anyone be loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because, all that is in the world––the coveting of the flesh, the coveting of the eyes, and the vain grandeur of life––is not of the Father, but is, of the world;

²⁵ And, this, is the promise, which he hath promised unto us,––The age–abiding life.

² Beloved! now, are we, children of God; and, not yet, hath it been made manifest, what we shall be,––We know that, if it should be made manifest, like unto him, shall we be, because we shall see him, just as he is.