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2 Peter 1:13

in 2 Peter 1

I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

KJV

Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

This verse in 2 Peter 1

Commentary

9 notes on this verse
Yea, I think it meet - I think it becomes me as an apostle. It is my appropriate duty; a duty which is felt the more as the close of life draws near. As long as I am in this tabernacle - As long as I live; as long as I am in the body. The body is called a tabernacle, or tent, as that in which the soul resides for a little time. See the notes at 2Co 5:

This site's exposition

I will always remind you of these things

on 2 Peter 1:12-15

Peter's last work is remembrance. He calls his body a tent that will soon be laid aside, as the Lord foretold in John 21:18-19. After my departure uses exodon, his exodus, and many older readers linked this promise to Mark's Gospel.

This site's exposition

tent of my body

Peter calls his body a tent. Albert Barnes reads it as the dwelling where the soul lives a little while, and he points to the same picture in 2 Corinthians 5:1. The nearness of the end is the reason for his reminders.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Hilary of Arles

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER · Written before 449.

proposed

Peter thought that it was right to call Gentiles to faith, but the Jews did not. This is why he expresses himself like this here.

The Medieval Church2 voices

A commentator

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on 2 Peter · Written before 1107.

proposed

So that with the constant reminder of the same things they would not think they were being condemned for idleness, and not be grieved, the apostle added: "though you know and are established in the present truth." And in explanation of the reason for the …

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on the Catholic Epistles · Written before 735.

proposed

I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, etc. We usually make use of a tabernacle in journey or in war, and rightly therefore the faithful, as long as they are in the body and are away from the Lord, testify …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Yea, I think it meet,.... Or "just".

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Yea--Greek, "But"; though "you know" the truth (2Pe 1:12). this tabernacle--soon to be taken down (2Co 5:1): I therefore need to make the most of my short time for the good of Christ's Church. The zeal of Satan against it, the more intense as his time is short, ought to stimulate Christians on the same ground. by--Greek, "in" (compare 2Pe 3:1).
1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

As long as I am in this tabernacle - By tabernacle we are to understand his body; and hence several of the versions have σωματι, body, instead of σκηνωματι, tabernacle. Peter’s mode of speaking is very remarkable: as long as I AM in this tabernacle, so then the body was not Peter, but Peter dwelt in that body. Is not this a proof that St. Peter believed his soul to be very distinct from his body? As a man’s house is the place where he dwells, so the body is the house where the soul dwells.

The words behind it

14 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Timothy 1:6

    For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

    it leads to

    • 1 Timothy 4:14

      Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.

    • 1 Peter 4:10–11

      As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.

    • Romans 12:6–8

      We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;

    • 1 Thessalonians 5:19

      Do not extinguish the Spirit.

    • 2 Peter 3:1

      Beloved, this is now my second letter to you. Both of them are reminders to stir you to wholesome thinking

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 5:8

    We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

    it leads to

    • Philippians 1:20–24

      I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or…

    • 2 Corinthians 5:6

      Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

  • Through

    Hebrews 13:3

    Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 25:36

      I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Peter

The Transfiguration, Giovanni Bellini, about 1478 to 1479, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte. Public domain.
The Transfiguration, Giovanni Bellini, about 1478 to 1479, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte. Public domain.
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Bede, Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; Hilary of Arles, INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on 2 Peter.