THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER - Chapter 1 - Verse 13

Verse 13. Yea, I think it meet. I think it becomes me as an apostle. It is my appropriate duty; a duty which is felt the more as the close of life draws near.

As long as I am in this tabernacle. As long as I live; as long as I am in the body. The body is called a tabernacle, or tent, as that in which the soul resides for a little time. See Barnes "2 Co 5:1".

To stir you up, by putting you in remembrance. To excite or arouse you to a diligent performance of your duties; to keep up in your minds a lively sense of Divine things. Religion becomes more important to a man's mind always as he draws near the close of life, and feels that he is soon to enter the eternal world.

{+} "meet" "right" {a} "stir you up" 2 Pe 3:1 {++} "remembrance" "reminding you"