{"id":1032,"date":"2015-09-17T20:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2015-09-13T20:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:48:51","slug":"friday-september-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Friday, September 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Peter Three Eleven-Eighteen<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?\u00a0 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.\u00a0 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;\u00a0 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation\u2014 as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,\u00a0 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.\u00a0 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>Kontakion<\/p>\n<p>Radiant with divine light, O blessed one, \/ illumine us who lovingly praise your precious and glorious passing; \/ hierarch father Eumenius, \/ unceasingly intercede for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Peter Three Eleven-Eighteen Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}