As you know him better, he will give you, though his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life.
(2 Peter 1:3, Living Bible)
God made great and marvelous promises, so that his nature would become part of us.
(2 Peter 1:4, Contemporary English Version)
Do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge; to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness; to your godliness add brotherly affection; and to your brotherly affection add love.
(2 Peter 1:5-7)
Try harder to make God’s call and his choice of you a permanent experience.
(2 Peter 1:10, Good News Bible)
No one can explain by himself a prophecy in the Scriptures. For no prophetic message ever came just from the will of man, but men were under the control of the Holy Spirit as they spoke the message that came from God.
(2 Peter 1:20-21, Good News Bible)
False teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories.
(2 Peter 2:3, Good News Bible)
God doesn’t sleep.
(2 Peter 2:3, Contemporary English Version)
A person is a slave of anything that has conquered him.
(2 Peter 2:19)
A man is a slave to whatever controls him.
(2 Peter 2:19, Living Bible)
People are slaves of whatever controls them.
(2 Peter 2:19, Contemporary English Version)
The earth was formed out of water, and by water, and it was by water also, the water of the Flood, that the old world was destroyed.
(2 Peter3:5-6, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
There is no difference in the Lord’s sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same. The Lord is not slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead, he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins.
(2 Peter 3:8-9, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The Lord isn’t slow about keeping his promises, as some people think he is. In fact, God is patient, because he wants everyone to turn from sin and no one to be lost.
(2 Peter 3:9, Contemporary English Version)
Your lives should be holy and dedicated to God.
(2 Peter 3:11, Good News Bible)
You should serve and honor God by the way you live.
(2 Peter 3:11, Contemporary English Version)
Your lives should be holy and dedicated to God, as you wait for the Day of God, and do your get to make it come soon - the Day when the heavens will burn up and be destroyed, and the heavenly bodies will be melted by the heat.
(2 Peter 3:11-13, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We wait for what God has promised: new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will be at home.
(2 Peter 3:13, Good News Bible)
Do your best to be pure and faultless in God’s sight and to be at peace with him.
(2 Peter 3:14, Good News Bible)
Look on our Lord’s patience as the opportunity he is giving you to be saved.
(2 Peter 3:15, Good News Bible)
The Lord is patient because he wants people to be saved.
(2 Peter 3:15, Contemporary English Version)