14So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.


In Context

11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives

12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.

13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.

14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.

15 Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.

16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

2nd Peter 3:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found by him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Why, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.