📖WEB · 2 Peter 1:14

What does 2 Peter 1:14 mean?

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

— 2 Peter 1:14 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

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

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For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

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For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

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