Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For we revealed to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, not men who followed in cunningly devised myths, but men who became eyewitnesses of the majesty of that man.
New American Standard Bible
For we did not follow cleverly devised
King James Version
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Holman Bible
For we did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ;
International Standard Version
When we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we did not follow any clever myths. Rather, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
American Standard Version
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Amplified
For we did not follow cleverly devised stories or myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were
An Understandable Version
For we did not use cleverly conceived stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, because we were eyewitnesses of His Majesty [i.e., the apostles had personally seen the miraculous power of Jesus].
Anderson New Testament
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Bible in Basic English
For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.
Common New Testament
For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for, the information we gave you of the powerful advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, did not proceed from any artfully contriv'd fables, we our selves having been spectators of his majesty.
Darby Translation
For we have not made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly imagined fables, but having been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his grandeur;
Godbey New Testament
For not having followed cunningly devised fables, have we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Goodspeed New Testament
For they were no fictitious stories that we followed when we informed you of the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and of his coming, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty.
John Wesley New Testament
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Julia Smith Translation
For not having followed ingeniously contrived fictions, we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been spectators of his majesty.
King James 2000
For we have not followed cunningly devised myths, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ [by] following ingeniously concocted myths, but [by] being eyewitnesses of that one's majesty.
Modern King James verseion
For not having followed fables having been cunningly devised, but becoming eyewitnesses of the majesty of Jesus Christ, we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For we followed not deceitful fables when we opened unto you the power, and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but with our eyes we saw his majesty:
Moffatt New Testament
For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,
Montgomery New Testament
For we were not following cunningly devised fables, when we told you of the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his Majesty.
NET Bible
For we did not follow cleverly concocted fables when we made known to you the power and return of our Lord Jesus Christ; no, we were eyewitnesses of his grandeur.
New Heart English Bible
For we did not follow cunningly devised tales, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Noyes New Testament
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but had been made eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Sawyer New Testament
For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known to you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.
The Emphasized Bible
For, not as having followed, cleverly devised stories, made we known unto you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but as having been made, spectators, of his majesty.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For we have not followed artfully devised fables, when we made known to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we told you of the Coming in power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Webster
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Weymouth New Testament
For when we made known to you the power and Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we were not eagerly following cleverly devised legends, but we had been eye-witnesses of His majesty.
Williams New Testament
For it was not mere stories of fancy that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty.
World English Bible
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Worrell New Testament
For, not as having followed after cunningly-devised stories, did we make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but as having been made spectators of His majesty.
Worsley New Testament
For we did not follow artfully devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
Youngs Literal Translation
For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty --
Themes
Apostles » Duties of » See commission of, above, and
Glory of Christ » In his transfiguration
Folly » Witnesses, two or thee required » Disciples and early Christians as
Fools » Witnesses, two or thee required » Disciples and early Christians as
Glory » God the father giving jesus Christ glory
Honor » Jesus Christ being crowned with honor
Knowledge » Prepares men for the duties of life » Enabled the apostles to speak with authority
Peter » Present » At the transfiguration
Power » Of Christ » Will be specially manifested at his second coming
Power » Of Christ » Ministers should make known
The power of Christ » Shall be specially manifested at his second coming
The power of Christ » Ministers should make known
Witness » Who is a witness of the lord
Topics
Interlinear
Gnorizo
Kurios
μεγαλειότης
megaleiotes
Usage: 3
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 38 Translations in 2 Peter 1:16
Prayers for 2 Peter 1:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Salvation Based On The Word Of God
15 And also I will endeavor for you to always have, after my departure, the memory of these things to apply. 16 For we revealed to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, not men who followed in cunningly devised myths, but men who became eyewitnesses of the majesty of that man. 17 For having received from God the Father honor and glory from a voice of such kind brought to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, the beloved in whom I am well pleased.
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:4
nor to heed myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than stewardship of God in faith.
Luke 9:28-32
And it came to pass about eight days after these sayings, that after taking Peter and John and James, he went up onto the mountain to pray.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.
1 Corinthians 2:4
And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of spirit and of power,
Malachi 3:2
But who can abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.
Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes.
Matthew 16:28-8
Truly I say to you, there are some of those who stand here, who will, no, not taste of death, until they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Matthew 24:3
And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what is the sign of thy coming, and of the termination of the age?
Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning comes out from the east, and shines as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of man.
Matthew 28:18
And Jesus having come, he spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth was given to me.
Mark 9:1-2
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, there are some of those who have stood here, who will, no, not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.
John 17:2
just as thou gave him authority over all flesh, so that all things that thou have given him, he will give them eternal life.
Romans 1:4
He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead--Jesus Christ our Lord--
1 Corinthians 1:7
so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness.
1 Corinthians 2:1
And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not in eminence of speech or of wisdom proclaiming the testimony of God to you.
1 Corinthians 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.
2 Corinthians 12:16-17
But let it be. I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being clever, I caught you with bait.
Ephesians 4:14
So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.
Philippians 3:21
who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself.
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
2 Thessalonians 2:9
Whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and marvels of deceit,
1 Timothy 4:7
But reject the profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself to piety.
Titus 1:14
not giving heed to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
2 Peter 3:3-4
Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,
1 John 1:1-3
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
1 John 4:14
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world.
Jude 1:14
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, Behold, Lord came with his holy myriads,
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he comes with the clouds and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth will wail against him. Yea, Truly.