And it is only right that I should keep on reminding you as long as I live.
Parallel translations
- WEB I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
- KJV Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
- BSB I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,
- NKJV Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,
- NASB I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder,
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Quick answer
As long as he lives in his earthly body, Peter considers it right to stir his readers up by reminding them. It matters because faithful teachers use their remaining time to strengthen others.
Overview
Peter calls his body a 'tent,' a temporary dwelling, signaling awareness of his coming death. He views his remaining ministry as a stewardship to rouse believers to alertness and faithfulness. The reminder shows a pastor's heart investing in others while he still can.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- 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;
- 2 Pet 1:14knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
- Heb 13:3Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
- 2 Cor 5:8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
- 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.
- 2 Pet 1:12Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
- 2 Cor 5:1–4For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- Hag 1:14Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
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