I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

I stir

Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

Pure

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

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

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Way

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.

General references

And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: