¹ My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;

⁶ For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.

¹² For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

¹³ And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

¹⁴ For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

¹⁵ And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.

¹ Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.

²² Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.

¹ Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

² Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

⁴ He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

⁸ Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

² I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity;