"Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance." — 2 Peter 1:15

2 Peter 1:15 · KJV

“Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.”

— 2 Peter 1:15

Knowing that shortly I must put off {this} my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

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.

2 Peter 1 — Context

Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting {you} in remembrance;

Knowing that shortly I must put off {this} my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

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.

For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:19-29

Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

Psalms 71:18

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto {this} generation, {and} thy power to every one {that} is to come. {when...: Heb. unto old age and gray hairs} {thy strength: Heb. thine arm}

Joshua 24:24-29

And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

2 Peter 1:12

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.

2 Timothy 2:2

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. {among: or, by}

1 Chronicles 29:1-20

Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, {is yet} young and tender, and the work {is} great: for the palace {is} not for man, but for the LORD God.

2 Peter 1:4-7

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Luke 9:31

Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.