2 Peter 1:12

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.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Jn 2:21I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
• Rom 15:14–15I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
• Phil 3:1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
• 2 Jn 1:2for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
• 2 Pet 1:13I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• 2 Pet 1:15Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
• Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 1 Pet 5:12Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
• 2 Pet 3:17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
• 2 Pet 3:1This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
• Jude 1:17But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Heb 10:32But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
• 1 Tim 4:6If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
• 2 Tim 1:6For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
• Acts 16:5So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

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