Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
11 Since all these things will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and dedicated to God,
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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 wait for the Day of God and do your best to make it come soon - the Day when the heavens will burn up and be destroyed, and the heavenly bodies will be melted by the heat.
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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 we wait for what God has promised: new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will be at home.
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But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
14 And so, my friends, as you wait for that Day, do your best to be pure and faultless in God's sight and to be at peace with him.
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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 Look on our Lord's patience as the opportunity he is giving you to be saved, just as our dear friend Paul wrote to you, using the wisdom that God gave him.
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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 This is what he says in all his letters when he writes on the subject. There are some difficult things in his letters which ignorant and unstable people explain falsely, as they do with other passages of the Scriptures. So they bring on their own destruction.
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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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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