2 Peter 1:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

2 Peter 1:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 71:18
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Deuteronomy 31:19-29
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. …
Joshua 24:24-29
And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. …
2 Peter 1:12
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2 Peter 1:4-7
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. …

Topics

Decision Zeal, Religious

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-15)

I. The importance and advantage of progress and perseverance in grace and holiness made the apostle to be very diligent in doing the work of a minister of Christ, that he might thereby excite and assist them to be diligent in the duty of Christians. If ministers be negligent in their work, it can hardly be expected that the people will be diligent in theirs; therefore Peter will not be negligent (…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. endeavour--“use my diligence”: the same Greek word as in 2Pe 1:10: this is the field in which my diligence has scope. Peter thus fulfils Christ’s charge, “Feed My sheep” (Joh 21:16, 17). decease--“departure.” The very word (“exodus”) used in the Transfiguration, Moses and Elias conversing about Christ’s decease (found nowhere else in the New Testament, but He 11:22, “the departing of Israel” o…