John 17

Jesus Prays for Himself

1.) Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:

Father,
the hour has come.
Glorify Your Son
so that the Son may glorify You,
2.) for You gave Him authority
over all flesh;
so He may give eternal life
to all You have given Him.
3.) This is eternal life:
that they may know You, the only true God,
and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.
4.) I have glorified You on the earth
by completing the work You gave Me to do.
5.) Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.

John 1: 1-18

Prologue

1.) In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2.) He was with God in the beginning.
3.) All things were created through Him,
and apart from Him not one thing was created
that has been created.
4.) Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.
5.) That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.

2 Peter 3: 1-18

The Day of the Lord

1.) Dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written to you; in both letters, I want to develop a genuine understanding with a reminder,
2.) so that you can remember the words previously spoken by the holy prophets and the command of our Lord and Savior given through your apostles.
3.) First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,
4.) saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”
5.) They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God.
6.) Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded.
7.) But by the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

2 Peter 2:1-22

The Judgment of False Teachers

1.)  But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.
2.)  Many will follow their unrestrained ways, and the way of truth will be blasphemed because of them.
3.)  They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

4.)  For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;
5.)  and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
6.)  and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;
7.)  and if He rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral
8.)  (for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
9.)  then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
10.)  especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority.

Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;
11.)  however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord.
12.)  But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,
13.)  suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you.
14.)  They have eyes full of adultery and are always looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!
15.)  They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness
16.)  but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality.

17.)  These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.
18.)  For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
19.)  They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.
20.)  For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.
21.)  For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.
22.)  It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”