¹ This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

¹² Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

¹³ I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

¹⁴ knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

¹⁵ Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

¹ > Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart.

²² Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.

¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as strangers in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled in his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

²² Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

² I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;