2nd Peter

Thanking Jesus  

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2nd Peter 1

¹Thank You for Simon Peter, Your servant and apostle, O Jesus Christ, who wrote to those who have obtained a like precious faith with me in Your righteousness, Jesus Christ, my God and Savior.

²Thank You for the grace and peace that is multiplied to me in the knowledge of God and of You, Jesus my Lord, ³seeing that Your divine power has granted to me all things that pertain to life and godliness. Thank You for the knowledge of Yourself and for calling me by Your own glory and virtue.

⁴Thank You for granting to me Your precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these I am becoming a partaker of Your divine nature. Thank You for my escape from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

⁵Yes, and for this very cause I thank You for helping me add on my part all diligence. Thank You for supplying  moral excellence in my faith; and in that moral excellence, knowledge; ⁶and in that knowledge, self-control; and in that self-control patience; and in that patience godliness; ⁷and in that godliness brotherly affection; and in that brotherly affection, love.

⁸Thank You that as these things are mine and abound, they make me to not be idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of You, my Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹Thank You for telling me that anyone who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

¹⁰Therefore, Jesus, thank You for helping me to be more diligent to make my calling and election sure. Thank You that I will do these things and never stumble. ¹¹Thank You that I will be richly supplied with the entrance into Your eternal Kingdom, Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

¹²Therefore, I thank You that Peter was not negligent to remind me of these things, though I know them, and am established in the present truth.

¹³Thank You that Peter thought it right, as long as he was in this tent, to stir me up by reminding me; ¹⁴knowing that the putting off of his tent would come swiftly, even as You, my Lord Jesus Christ, made clear to him. ¹⁵Yes, thank You that he made every effort that I may always be able to remember these things even after his departure. ¹⁶Thank You that Your apostles did not follow cunningly devised fables, when they made known to me Your power and coming, O Lord Jesus Christ, but that they were eyewitnesses of Your majesty.

^[1]7I am grateful to God, Your Father, for the honor and glory You received, when the voice came from the Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.” ¹⁸Thank You that Peter heard this voice come out of heaven when he was with You on the holy mountain.

¹⁹Thank You that we have the more sure word of prophecy and that I am doing well by heeding it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in my heart.

²⁰Thank You that I know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation and ²¹that no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

 

2^nd Peter 2

³I appreciate knowing that in covetousness they will exploit us with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

⁴For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; ⁵and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly; ⁷and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked ⁸(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds): ⁹I thank You, Lord, for knowing how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment.

¹⁰Thank You that Your judgment is chiefly reserved for those who walk after the flesh in the lust of their lower natures, who despise authority, who are arrogant and selfwilled, and who are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries.

¹¹Thank You that angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring a railing judgment against them before You Lord. ¹²Thank You that these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, ¹³receiving the wages of unrighteousness.

Thank You for warning me about people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with us; ¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and who can not cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; ¹⁵forsaking the right way, going astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; ¹⁶but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

¹⁷Thank You for telling me about these who are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. ¹⁸For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those like me who are indeed escaping from those who live in error.

¹⁹Thank You that I understand that these people promise us liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a person is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

²⁰Thank You that I have escaped the defilement of the world through Your knowledge, O Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Thank You that I will not again be entangled in it and overcome, because the last state would be worse for me than the first.

²¹Thank You that I know that it would be better for me not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to me. ²²Although, it makes me sad, I am grateful to understand how it has happened to some according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

 

2^nd Peter 3

¹Thank You now, Jesus, for Peter’s second letter that he wrote to Christians including me. Thank You that  in both of them he stirs up my sincere mind by reminding me; ²that I should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of Your apostles, O Lord and Savior.

³Thank You that I know this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts, ⁴and saying, “Where is the promise of Your coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

⁵Although they willfully forget this, I thank You that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by Your word, O God; ⁶by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

⁷Thank You for revealing to me that the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people.

⁸Thank You for helping me to not forget this one thing, Jesus, that one day is with You, Lord, as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

⁹Thank You, Lord, that You are not slow concerning Your promise, as some count slowness; but You are patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

¹⁰Thank You for telling me that Your day, O Lord, will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

¹¹Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed like this, thank You for making me the kind of person that I ought to be in holy living and godliness.

¹²Thank You that I look for and earnestly desiring the coming of Your day, O God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements to melt with fervent heat.

¹³Thank You that, according to Your promise, I look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

¹⁴Therefore, Jesus, seeing that I look for these things, thank You that I am diligent to be found at peace, without blemish and blameless in Your sight.

¹⁵I am thankful to regard Your patience, O Lord, as salvation.

Thank You for Peter’s beloved brother Paul who also wrote to us, according to the wisdom given to him.

¹⁶Thank You for all of Paul’s letters, speaking in them of these things, although there are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

¹⁷Thank You therefore, Jesus, that by knowing these things beforehand, I can beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, I fall from my own steadfastness.

¹⁸Thank You that I am growing in Your grace and Your knowledge, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

To You be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

JESUS, THANK YOU THAT BECAUSE OF WHO YOU

ARE…

I am one who has obtained a like precious faith with You.                           I am granted all things that pertain to life and godliness.

I am called by Your own glory and virtue. I am granted Your precious and exceedingly great promises.

I am becoming a partaker of Your divine nature.

I am an escapee from the corruption that is in the world.

I am diligently adding to my moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness, brotherly affection, and love.

I am not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of You, O Christ.

I am not blind, seeing only what is near.

I am remembering the cleansing from my old sins.

I am diligent to make my calling and election sure.

I am not stumbling.

I am richly supplied with the entrance into Your eternal Kingdom.

I am established in the present truth.

I am remembering the things of God.

I am doing well by heeding the more sure word of prophecy.

I am encountering false teachers.

I am being warned that many will follow their immoral ways.

I am being warned that the way of truth will be maligned.

I am not being exploited with deceptive words.

I am godly.

I am being delivered out of temptation.

I am not arrogant and self-willed.

I am afraid to speak evil of dignitaries.

I am escaping from those who live in error.

I am no longer entangled and overcome in the defilement of the          world.

I am knowing the way of righteousness.

I am not turning back from the holy commandment.

I am sincere in my mind.

I am wishing that no one should perish, but that all come to          repentance.

I am being made into the kind of person that I ought to be in holy          living and godliness.

I am looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of Your day.

I am looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which          righteousness dwells.

I am diligent to be found at peace.

I am diligent to be without blemish and blameless in Your sight.

I am regarding Your patience, as salvation.

I am not ignorant nor unsettled.

I am not twisting Scriptures to my own destruction.

I am aware and forewarned.

I am not being carried away with the errors of the wicked.

I am not falling from my own steadfastness.

I am growing in Your grace and knowledge.

I am giving glory to You both now and forever.

 

[1] Thank You for warning me that as false prophets also arose among the people, false teachers will also be among us, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even You, Master, Who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. ²Thank You for also warning me that many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.