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- II PETER 1
- 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to
- them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
- righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
- 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
- knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
- 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all
- things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the
- knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
- 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
- promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine
- nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
- through lust.
- 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith
- virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
- 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;
- and to patience godliness;
- 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
- kindness charity.
- 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you
- that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the
- knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see
- afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old
- sins.
- 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make
- your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye
- shall never fall:
- 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you
- abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
- Jesus Christ.
- 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in
- remembrance of these things, though ye know [them], and be
- established in the present truth.
- 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this
- tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;
- 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off [this] my
- tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.
- 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my
- decease to have these things always in remembrance.
- 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when
- we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
- Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory,
- when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,
- This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
- 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we
- were with him in the holy mount.
- 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye
- do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a
- dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your
- hearts:
- 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is
- of any private interpretation.
- 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of
- man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy
- Ghost.
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- II PETER 2
- 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even
- as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall
- bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought
- them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
- 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of
- whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
- 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words
- make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time
- lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
- 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast
- [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of
- darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth
- [person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood
- upon the world of the ungodly;
- 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes
- condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample
- unto those that after should live ungodly;
- 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
- conversation of the wicked:
- 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing
- and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with
- [their] unlawful deeds;)
- 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
- temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment
- to be punished:
- 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust
- of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous [are
- they], selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of
- dignities.
- 2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might,
- bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
- 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
- destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not;
- and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
- 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as]
- they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots
- [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own
- deceivings while they feast with you;
- 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from
- sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised
- with covetous practices; cursed children:
- 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,
- following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the
- wages of unrighteousness;
- 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking
- with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
- 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried
- with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for
- ever.
- 2:18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity,
- they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much]
- wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in
- error.
- 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the
- servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the
- same is he brought in bondage.
- 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the
- world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus
- Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the
- latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
- 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the
- way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn
- from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
- 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true
- proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the
- sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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- II PETER 3
- 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in
- [both] which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
- 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken
- before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the
- apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
- 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last
- days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
- 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since
- the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were]
- from the beginning of the creation.
- 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word
- of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of
- the water and in the water:
- 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with
- water, perished:
- 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same
- word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of
- judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
- 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one
- day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand
- years as one day.
- 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men
- count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing
- that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
- night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great
- noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
- also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
- 3:11 [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be
- dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all]
- holy conversation and godliness,
- 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of
- God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and
- the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
- 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new
- heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
- 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things,
- be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot,
- and blameless.
- 3:15 And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is]
- salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to
- the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
- 3:16 As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these
- things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which
- they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also
- the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
- 3:17 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.
- 3:18 But grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord
- and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and for
- ever. Amen.
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