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12 ) Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though all of you know them, and be established in the present truth.
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13 ) Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance,
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14 ) Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.
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15 ) Moreover I will endeavour that all of you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
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16 ) 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.
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17 ) 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.
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18 ) And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
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19 ) We have also a more sure word of prophecy, unto which all of you do well that all of you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
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20 ) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
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21 ) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.