2 Peter 1:16

Salvation Based On The Word Of God

¹⁵ So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ For he received honour and glory from God the Father, when from the Glory of the Divine Majesty there were borne to his ears words such as these-- 'This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight.'

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1 Timothy 1:4

nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith.

Luke 9:28-32

About eight days after speaking these words, Jesus went up the mountain to pray, taking with him Peter, John, and James.

John 1:14

And the Word became Man, and dwelt among us, (We saw his glory--the glory of the Only Son sent from the Father), full of love and truth.

1 Corinthians 1:17

My mission from Christ was not to baptize, but to tell the Good News; not, however, in the language of philosophy, lest the cross of the Christ should be robbed of its meaning.

1 Corinthians 2:4

My Message and my Proclamation were not delivered in the persuasive language of philosophy, but were accompanied by the manifestation of spiritual power,

Matthew 16:28-8

I tell you, some of those who are standing here will not know death till they have seen the Son of Man coming into his Kingdom."

Matthew 24:3

So, while Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came up to him privately and said: "Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign of your Coming, and of the close of the age."

Matthew 24:27

For, just as lightning will start from the east and flash across to the west, so will it be with the Coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 28:18

Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

Mark 9:1-2

"I tell you," he added, "that some of those who are standing here will not know death till they have seen the Kingdom of God come in power."

John 17:2

Even as thou gavest him power over all mankind, that he should give Immortal Life to all those whom thou has given him.

Romans 1:4

But, as to the spirit of holiness within him, was miraculously designated Son of God by his resurrection from the dead.

1 Corinthians 1:7

And thus there is no gift in which you are deficient, while waiting for the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:23

We are proclaiming Christ crucified!-to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,

1 Corinthians 2:1

For my own part, Brothers, when I came to you, it was with no display of eloquence or philosophy that I came to tell the hidden purpose of God;

1 Corinthians 5:4

I have decided-having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us-

2 Corinthians 2:17

Unlike many people, we are not in the habit of making profit out of God's Message; but in all sincerity, and bearing God's commission, we speak before him in union with Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

No, we have renounced the secrecy prompted by shame, refusing to adopt crafty ways, or to tamper with God's Message, and commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God, by our exhibition of the Truth.

2 Corinthians 12:16-17

You will admit that I was not a burden to you but you say that I was "crafty" and caught you "by a trick"!

Ephesians 4:14

Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

Philippians 3:21

Who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his Glory.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what hope or joy will be ours, or what crown shall we have to boast of, in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his Coming, if it be not you?

2 Thessalonians 2:9

For at the Coming of the Lord there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude--

1 Timothy 4:7

As for profane legends and old wives' tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;

Titus 1:14

and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.

2 Peter 3:3-4

First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions,

1 John 1:1-3

It is of what has been in existence from the Beginning, of what we have heard, of what we have seen with our eyes, of what we watched reverently and touched with our hands--it is about the Word who is the Life that we are now writing.

1 John 4:14

Moreover, our eyes have seen--and we are testifying to the fact--that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

Jude 1:14

To these men, as to others, Enoch, the seventh in descent from Adam, declared-- 'See! the Lord has come with his hosts of holy ones around him,

Revelation 1:7

'He is coming among the clouds!' Every eye shall see him, even those who pierced him; 'and all the nations of the earth shall wail for fear of him.' So shall it be. Amen.