Monday
2 Peter 3
This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; in them I am trying to arouse your sincere intention by reminding you
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that you should remember the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles.
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First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts
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and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”
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They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,
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through which the world of that time was deluged with water and perished.
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But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the godless.
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But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.
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The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
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But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.
Tuesday
2 Peter 3
Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness,
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waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire?
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But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.
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Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or blemish;
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and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
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speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
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You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability.
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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Wednesday
1 John 4
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
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and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming; and now it is already in the world.
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Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
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They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.
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We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Thursday
1 John 4
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
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Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
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God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.
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In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.
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No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Friday
1 John 4
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.
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God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God.
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So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
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Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world.
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There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.
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We love because he first loved us.
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Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
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The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.
