Study Desk

Let none of you suffer for being a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or a meddler in other people's affairs.

But if anyone suffers for being Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him bring glory to God by the way he bears this name.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin. It begins with the household of God; and if it starts with us, what will the outcome be for those who are disobeying God's Good News? —

shepherd the flock of God that is in your care, exercising oversight not out of constraint, but willingly, as God wants; and not out of a desire for dishonest gain, but with enthusiasm;

Stay sober, stay alert! Your enemy, the Adversary, stalks about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

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.

For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble.

For this reason, I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you already have.

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.

For we were there when he received honor and glory from God the Father; and the voice came to him from the grandeur of the Sh'khinah, saying, "This is my son, whom I love; I am well pleased with him!"

for never has a prophecy come as a result of human willing — on the contrary, people moved by the Ruach HaKodesh spoke a message from God.

For God did not spare the angels who sinned; on the contrary, he put them in gloomy dungeons lower than Sh'ol to be held for judgment.

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

especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority. Presumptuous and self-willed, these false teachers do not tremble at insulting angelic beings;

they will be paid back harm as wages for the harm they are doing. Their idea of pleasure is carousing in broad daylight; they are spots and defects reveling in their deceptions as they share meals with you —

for they have eyes always on the lookout for a woman who will commit adultery, eyes that never stop sinning; and they have a heart that has exercised itself in greed; so that they seduce unstable people. What a cursed brood!

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

Waterless springs they are, mists driven by a gust of wind; for them has been reserved the blackest darkness.