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2 Peter 1:16

For we followed not deceiuable fables when we opened vnto you the power, and comming of our Lord Iesus Christ, but with our eyes we saw his maiestie:

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

In Context

15I will endeuour therefore alwayes, that ye also may be able to haue remembrance of these things after my departing.

17For he receiued of God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voyce to him from that excellent glory, This is my beloued Sonne, in whom I am well pleased.

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Cross References

Malachi 4:5Beholde, I will sende you Eliiah the Prophet before the comming of the great and fearefull day of the Lord.

Matthew 24:3And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues, his disciples came vnto him apart, saying, Tell vs when these things shall be, and what signe shalbe of thy comming, and of the ende of the world.

Matthew 28:18And Iesus came, and spake vnto them, saying, All power is giuen vnto me, in heauen, and in earth.

Luke 9:28And it came to passe about an eyght dayes after those wordes, that he tooke Peter and Iohn, and Iames, and went vp into a mountaine to pray.

John 17:2As thou hast giuen him power ouer all flesh, that he shoulde giue eternall life to all them that thou hast giuen him.

1 Corinthians 1:7So that ye are not destitute of any gift: wayting for the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:13-16

Spiritual Exertions. ( a. d. 67.) 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. 15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. I. The… Read the whole commentary →

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