Passage cross-references.

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. …

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.

Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

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

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.