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2 Peter 1
1 I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God's straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
2 Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
Don't Put It Off
3 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!
4 We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you-your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.
5 So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding,
6 alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder,
7 warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others.
8 With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus.
9 Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.
Hebrews 10
Don't Throw It All Away
19-21 So, friends, we can now-without hesitation-walk right up to God, into "the Holy Place." Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The "curtain" into God's presence is his body.
22 So let's do it-full of belief, confident that we're presentable inside and out.
23 Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word.
24 Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out,
25 not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.
26 If we give up and turn our backs on all we've learned, all we've been given, all the truth we now know, we repudiate Christ's sacrifice
27 and are left on our own to face the Judgment-and a mighty fierce judgment it will be!
28 If the penalty for breaking the law of Moses is physical death,
29 what do you think will happen if you turn on God's Son, spit on the sacrifice that made you whole, and insult this most gracious Spirit?
30 This is no light matter. God has warned us that he'll hold us to account and make us pay. He was quite explicit: "Vengeance is mine, and I won't overlook a thing," and, "God will judge his people."
31 Nobody's getting by with anything, believe me...
Nobody's getting by with anything, believe me.
32 Remember those early days after you first saw the light? Those were the hard times!
33 Kicked around in public, targets of every kind of abuse-some days it was you, other days your friends.
34 If some friends went to prison, you stuck by them. If some enemies broke in and seized your goods, you let them go with a smile, knowing they couldn't touch your real treasure. Nothing they did bothered you, nothing set you back.
35 So don't throw it all away now. You were sure of yourselves then. It's still a sure thing!
36 But you need to stick it out, staying with God's plan so you'll be there for the promised completion.
37 It won't be long now, he's on the way; he'll show up most any minute.
38 But anyone who is right with me thrives on loyal trust; if he cuts and runs, I won't be very happy.
39 But we're not quitters who lose out. Oh, no! We'll stay with it and survive, trusting all the way.
Love never fails.
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