Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,
But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,
And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.
By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
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