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and cannot see afar off, and he has forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins.
Rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if you do these
things, you shall never fall: for so an entrance
shall be ministered to you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. I will not be negligent to always
put you in remembrance of these things,
though you know them and are established in
the truth. Yes, I think it fitting, as long as I am in
this body, 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 has shown me.
Moreover, I will endeavor that you may be able
after my death 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 we were eyewitnesses of
his majesty; for he received from God the
Father honor and glory; when there came a
voice to him from the excellent glory saying:
