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Text: 2 Peter 3, 3-7.

TO THE READER.

When the year has twenty-seven Sundays after Trinity, which seldom occurs, substitute the text of 2 Peter 3, 3-7 for the twenty-sixth Sunday and use the text of the twenty-sixth Sunday for the twenty-seventh Sunday.

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KJV: This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

WEB: This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;