2 Peter 3:11 Cross References - LEB

¹¹ Because* all these things are being destroyed in this way, what sort of people must you be in holy behavior and godliness,

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow to throw down the poor and the needy, to kill those upright in their way.

²³ He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he who orders his way; I will show him the salvation of God."

³ The earth and all its inhabitants are shaking;* I steady* its columns. Selah

³¹ Wail, gate! Cry, city! Melt,* Philistia, all of you! For smoke is coming from the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

¹⁹ The earth is utterly broken; the earth is torn asunder; the earth is shaken violently.

⁴ and all the host of heaven shall rot. And the skies shall roll up like a scroll, and all their host shall wither like the withering of a leaf from a vine, or* like the withering from a fig tree.

²⁷ And the men were astonished, saying, "What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?"

¹² For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness* and purity of motive from God, not* in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

²⁷ Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear _⌊your circumstances_⌋*, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

²⁰ For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵ because our gospel did not come to you with word only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, just as you know what sort of people we became among you for your sake.

¹⁶ And most certainly, great is the mystery of godliness:
Who was revealed in the flesh, was vindicated by* the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the Gentiles*, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.

¹² Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

³ If anyone teaches other doctrine and does not devote himself to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is in accordance with godliness,

⁶ But godliness with contentment is a great means of gain.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.

⁵ Your lifestyle must be free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For he himself has said, "I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you."*

²⁴ for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his* good behavior his works, with the humility of wisdom.

¹⁵ but as the one who called you is holy, you yourselves be holy in all your conduct,

¹² maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in the things in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.

³ because his divine power has bestowed on us all things that are necessary for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence of character,

⁶ and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness,

¹² while* waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by* being burned up and the celestial bodies will melt as they* are consumed by heat!