Catholic Public Domain Version
"Therefore, I will present a work for you to have, so that, frequently after my passing, you may call to mind these things. "
— 2 Peter 1:15, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.”
“Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance. ”
“Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.”
“Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.”
“And I will endeavour that you frequently have after my decease whereby you may keep a memory of these things.”
“And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.”
“Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.”
For this reason, I will always begin to admonish you about these things, even though, certainly, you know them and are confirmed in the present truth.
But I consider it just, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up with admonishments.
For it is certain that the laying to rest of this, my tabernacle, is approaching swiftly, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has also indicated to me.
Therefore, I will present a work for you to have, so that, frequently after my passing, you may call to mind these things.
For it was not by following fanciful doctrines that we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were made eyewitnesses of his greatness.
For he received honor and glory from God the Father, whose voice descended to him from the magnificent glory: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
We also heard this voice conveyed from heaven, when we were with him on the holy mountain.