1st and 2nd Peter; 1st, 2nd, 3rd John; and Jude, books #69-74

Finishing up ....

These letters of Peter and John are, obviously from Peter and John, but they have the similar greetings as Paul's letters.

1 Peter

Grace and peace.

4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. (or you could pretty much add anything to that, like wasting time on your electronic device, eating too much, -- oops, that hurt!)

5:8-9 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

Peace. 

2 Peter 

Grace and peace.

2:19  They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”  

1 John 

1:8-10 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.  If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

3:4-10  Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.  But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.  No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.  Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.   

5:18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.

Hhm, this demands some more thinking and studying.  I mean, I know I am saved and if I died I would go to heaven, but unfortunately I am still human and still sin daily, if not hourly.  I *can* still go on sinning, but I have been born of God.

2 John and 3 John

Grace, mercy, peace.

Letters to the Chosen Lady and her children, and his dear friend Gaius.

Peace.

Jude

Mercy, peace and love.


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