He now offers a perspective which is both encouraging and a warning: It's almost over. More specifically, Peter writes that the end of all things is near, or "draws near. Messiah has come, lived, died 1 Peter , been resurrected 1 Peter , and ascended back to His Father where He reigns now over the universe 1 Peter and is ready right now to judge all who live and have ever lived 1 Peter Along with the other New Testament writers, Peter affirms that we are now living in the last days or end times.
True, by God's grace, it has been 2, years since Peter wrote these words 2 Peter That span seems extremely long to short-lived humans 2 Peter —4 , but the day continues to draw ever nearer. Be prudent therefore, and watch in prayers. English Revised Version But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer: Good News Translation The end of all things is near.
You must be self-controlled and alert, to be able to pray. Therefore, practice self-control, and keep your minds clear so that you can pray. International Standard Version Because everything will soon come to an end, be sensible and clear-headed, so you can pray. Literal Standard Version Now the end of all things has come near; be sober-minded, then, and be sober in [your] prayers. NET Bible For the culmination of all things is near.
So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer. New Heart English Bible But the end of all things is near. Therefore be serious and disciplined in your prayers. Weymouth New Testament But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.
World English Bible But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. Young's Literal Translation And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers, Additional Translations There's a lot of pretense out there. It can be exhausting. When people see something genuine, even if it's something as simple as two people actually being friends, actually enjoying what they're doing, or actually standing up for each other, that translates in a big way.
Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. I like Das Racist, and so should you. I work on a musician's week, so Monday is Friday. By the time Thursday rolls around, you stay in, and you work, and you don't go out because it's horrible.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
No one comes to the Father except through me. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. You cannot serve God and money. But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,. Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize?
So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,. But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it.
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