2 Peter 1:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

I will not

Though

1 John 2:21

Jude 1:5

And be

1 Peter 5:10

Bible References

I will not

whilst I am alive, I think it my duty to awaken you by my admonitions:

This is the second letter I now write to you, my brethren, by which I would awaken your sincere attention,

As to myself, I am persuaded, my brethren, that you abound in goodness, and in variety of knowledge, and are able to instruct one another.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. it is not uneasy to me to write what I have already said, and it is an advantage to you.

If you represent these things to the brethren, you will appear to be a true minister of Jesus Christ, brought up in the institutions of faith, and the true doctrine to which you were attach'd.

For which reason I remind you to exert the divine gifts you received, when I gave you the imposition of hands.

Call to remembrance the former times, in which after ye were illuminated, you were forc'd to struggle with sufferings,

My beloved, as I was strongly bent upon writing to you of our common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you at present, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints.

Though

I have not written to you, as to people unacquainted with the truth of the gospel: but as to such who know it, and know that it cannot give rise to any imposture.

Now, I would call to your remembrance what you once were inform'd of, that when the Lord had delivered the people from the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those that were disobedient.

And be

Do you then, my dear brethren, being thus forewarn'd, take care not to be seduc'd by those prophane impostors, and so lose the reward of your constancy.

thus were the churches established in the faith, and daily grew more numerous.

being firmly attach'd to, and founded upon him: establishing yourselves in the faith you have been taught, and being thankful for the improvement you make therein.

for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.

but may the all-gracious God, who has called us to eternal glory, perfect, confirm, fortify, and settle you, during the short interval of your sufferings.