I have told you before, and I repeat it, as when I was present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have sinned already, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare you:

PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners, dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

I stir

Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this frail tabernacle, to rouse up your attention by reminding you:

For which cause I remind thee that thou fan into a flame the divine gift, which is in thee by the imposition of my hands.

Pure

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Lay hands hastily on no man, nor share another's sins: keep thyself pure;

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

Way

Wherefore I will not be negligent continually to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth.

General references

Now many other miracles did Jesus therefore also in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: