Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
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- WEB Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
- BSB Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.
- NKJV For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.
- NASB Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them and have been established in the truth which is present with you.
- NLT Therefore, I will always remind you about these things—even though you already know them and are standing firm in the truth you have been taught.
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Peter is determined to keep reminding his readers of these truths, even though they already know and are established in them. It matters because believers need ongoing reminders of truths they already hold.
Overview
Knowing that his readers are grounded in the truth, Peter still sees value in repetition. Christian maturity is not advanced by always seeking novelty but by being continually reminded of the gospel and its implications. This pastoral concern shapes the rest of the letter.
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Cross-references · 19
- 1 Jn 2:21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
- Rom 15:14–15And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
- Phil 3:1Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
- Col 2:7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
- Jude 1:5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
- 2 Jn 1:2For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
- 2 Pet 1:13Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
- Heb 13:9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
- 2 Pet 1:15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
- Jude 1:3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
- 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
- 1 Pet 5:12By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
- 2 Pet 3:17Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
- 2 Pet 3:1This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
- Jude 1:17But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Heb 10:32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
- 1 Tim 4:6If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
- 2 Tim 1:6Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
- Acts 16:5And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
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