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Rather, to the extent that you share the fellowship of the Messiah's sufferings, rejoice; so that you will rejoice even more when his Sh'khinah is revealed.

You will have to suffer only a little while; after that, God, who is full of grace, the one who called you to his eternal glory in union with the Messiah, will himself restore, establish and strengthen you and make you firm.

God's power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness.

Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away.

For when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, we did not rely on cunningly contrived myths. On the contrary, we saw his majesty with our own eyes.

First of all, understand this: no prophecy of Scripture is to be interpreted by an individual on his own;

for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day.

but was rebuked for his sin — a dumb beast of burden spoke out with a human voice and restrained the prophet's insanity!

and asking, "Where is this promised ‘coming' of his? For our fathers have died, and everything goes on just as it has since the beginning of creation."

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from his sins.

but we, following along with his promise, wait for new heavens and a new earth , in which righteousness will be at home.

Indeed, he speaks about these things in all his letters. They contain some things that are hard to understand, things which the uninstructed and unstable distort, to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

What we have seen and heard, we are proclaiming to you; so that you too may have fellowship with us. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Yeshua the Messiah.

But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of his Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin.

If we claim we have not been sinning, we are making him out to be a liar, and his Word is not in us.

The way we can be sure we know him is if we are obeying his commands.

Anyone who says, "I know him," but isn't obeying his commands is a liar — the truth is not in him.

A person who claims to be continuing in union with him ought to conduct his life the way he did.

Anyone who claims to be in this light while hating his brother is still in the dark.

The person who keeps loving his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him that could make him trip.