Assertion: epistle | /r/CapableOf | exhort reader
Facets:
value: to godliness
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to virtue
type: PURPOSE
value: to brotherly love
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to brotherly kindness
type: PURPOSE
value: to patience
type: PURPOSE
value: to temperance
type: PURPOSE
value: to diligence
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The Epistle exhorts the readers to diligence, virtue, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly love, and brotherly kindness; refers to the Transfiguration on the Mount, where the author witnessed the majesty of Christ, and to the prophetic word inspired by the Holy Spirit; warns against antinomian errors; corrects a mistake concerning the second coming; exhorts them to prepare for the day of the Lord by holy living, looking for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness; and closes with the words: "Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to whom be glory both now and forever.