Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
2 Peter 1:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
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Quick Meaning
This verse promises effort so the community can recall the teaching after the speaker's departure.
Read It With
- 2 Peter 1:12–15
Read 2 Peter 1:15 with 1:12–15. This verse promises effort so the community can recall the teaching after the speaker's departure. The complete unit establishes this movement: Although the hearers know the truth, the Petrine voice repeatedly reminds them because death is near and the teaching must remain available afterward.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The testament explains why familiar teaching is repeated and prepares a durable basis for discernment beyond the speaker's death. Within that movement, this verse promises effort so the community can recall the teaching after the speaker's departure.
Follow the Context
- The speaker will keep reminding people who already know and are established.
- While living in the bodily tent, he regards awakening memory as right.
- He expects the tent to be put off soon, as Jesus disclosed.
- He will act so the community can recall these matters after his departure.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“after my decease”
In plain language: The word exodos means departure and here points to death; its wider resonances do not identify the preservation method.
Promises effort so the community can recall the teaching after the speaker's departure. Faithful leadership equips people to retain and test truth beyond one person's lifespan.
Why it matters: The wording carries interpretive or ethical risk that requires the full unit and its stated limits.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The verse does not identify with certainty the exact writing, office, successor, or memorial mechanism intended.
What Remains True
Faithful leadership equips people to retain and test truth beyond one person's lifespan.
How It Can Shape Life
- Leave traceable sources, reasoning, corrections, and shared stewardship rather than a personality cult.
Teach It Back
Explain 2 Peter 1:15's contribution to 2 Peter 1:12–15: Promises effort so the community can recall the teaching after the speaker's departure. Include what the surrounding verses add, the stated uncertainty, and what this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Peter 1:12–15 — A Near-Death Testament Prioritizes RemembranceSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Proposals include this letter, another literary work, oral preservation, or a broader testamentary legacy.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 2 Peter 1:12–15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, repeated terms, and the base text used for original-language discussion.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file 2Pet.txt, 1:12–15
Open the 2 Peter Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — 2 Peter with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level Greek, syntax, KJV-era wording, textual variants, and interpretive alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Peter PDF, 1:12–15 translation and attached translator, study, and textual notes
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