I have said before, and I say it before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

I stir

and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding you,

For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,

Pure

The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.

Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

Way

Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

General references

Many indeed, therefore, other signs also did Jesus before his disciples, that are not written in this book;