15 And I will also make every effort that you are able at any time, after my departure, to recall these things to mind[a].

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16 For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ by[b] following ingeniously concocted myths, but by[c] being eyewitnesses of that one’s majesty. 17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father when[d] a voice such as this was brought to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:15 Literally “to make recollection of these”
  2. 2 Peter 1:16 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“following”) which is understood as means
  3. 2 Peter 1:16 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“being”) which is understood as means
  4. 2 Peter 1:17 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was brought”)