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But rejoice, that ye participate in the sufferings of the Messiah, that so ye may also rejoice and exult at the revelation of his glory.

And I, an Elder, your associate, and a witness of the sufferings of the Messiah, and a participator in his glory which is to be revealed, entreat the Elders who are among you:

Now it is the God of grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Jesus the Messiah, that hath given us, while we sustain these light afflictions, to be strengthened, and confirmed, and established by him for ever:

as the giver to us of all things that be of the power of God, unto life and the fear of God, through the recognition of him who hath called us unto his own glory and moral excellence:

For he, in whom these things are not found, is blind and seeth not, and hath forgotten the purgation of his former sins.

16 For we have not gone after fables artfully framed, in making known to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; but [fn] after we had been spectators of his majesty.

For, when he received from God the Father honor and glory, and, after the splendid glory of his majesty, a voice came to him thus: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased;

for that upright man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing from day to day, was distressed in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds;

and who had for the reprover of his transgression a dumb ass, which, speaking with the speech of men, rebuked the madness of the prophet.

But the true proverb hath happened to them: the dog returneth to his vomit and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, since our fathers fell asleep, every thing remaineth just as from the beginning of the creation.

And the heavens that now are, and the earth, are by his word stored up, being reserved for the fire at the day of judgment and the perdition of wicked men.

The Lord doth not procrastinate his promises, as some estimate procrastination; but he is long suffering, for your sakes, being not willing that any should perish, but that every one should come to repentance.

But we, according to his promise, expect new heavens, and a new earth, in which righteousness dwelleth.

16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which there is something difficult to be understood; [fn] which they who are ignorant and unstable, pervert, as they do also the rest of the scriptures, to their own destruction.

And what we have seen and heard, we make known to you also, that ye may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus the Messiah.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all our sins.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not with us.

And by this we shall be sensible that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

For he that saith, I know him, and doth not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.