so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

Be diligent

For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge,

And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.

In peace

"'See, He is in the desert,' do not go out there. "'See, He is in the inner room,' do not believe it.

"Now lettest thou thy slave depart, O Master; according to thy word in peace,

"Blessed is that slave whom his master on his coming shall find so doing.

He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

for testing things that differ, so that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,

And so may he establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints.

May the God of peace consecrate you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept altogether faultless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

General references

"Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps;

"Do you also be ready, for in an hour that you think not the Son of man is coming."

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.