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1:1 Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them
 that have received like precious faith with us through [the]
 righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:
1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in [the] knowledge of
 God and of Jesus our Lord.
1:3 As his divine power has given to us all things which relate
 to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has
 called us by glory and virtue,
1:4 through which he has given to us the greatest and precious
 promises, that through these ye may become partakers of [the]
 divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the
 world through lust.
1:5 But for this very reason also, using therewith all
 diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
1:6 in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in
 endurance godliness,
1:7 in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:
1:8 for these things existing and abounding in you make [you] to
 be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our
 Lord Jesus Christ;
1:9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind,
 short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former
 sins.
1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your
 calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never
 fall;
1:11 for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of
 our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you.
1:12 Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of
 these things, although knowing [them] and established in the
 present truth.
1:13 But I account it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle,
 to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance,
1:14 knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is speedily
 [to take place], as also our Lord Jesus Christ has manifested
 to me;
1:15 but I will use diligence, that after my departure ye should
 have also, at any time, [in your power] to call to mind these
 things.
1:16 For we have not made known to you the power and coming of
 our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly imagined fables, but
 having been eyewitnesses of *his* majesty.
1:17 For he received from God [the] Father honour and glory,
 such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This
 is my beloved Son, in whom *I* have found my delight;
1:18 and this voice *we* heard uttered from heaven, being with
 him on the holy mountain.
1:19 And we have the prophetic word [made] surer, to which ye do
 well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place)
 until [the] day dawn and [the] morning star arise in your
 hearts;
1:20 knowing this first, that [the scope of] no prophecy of
 scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,
1:21 for prophecy was not ever uttered by [the] will of man, but
 holy men of God spake under the power of [the] Holy Spirit.
2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, as
 there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring
 in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that
 bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
2:2 and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the
 way of the truth shall be blasphemed.
2:3 And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they
 make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle,
 and their destruction slumbers not.
2:4 For if God spared not [the] angels who had sinned, but
 having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered
 them to chains of darkness [to be] kept for judgment;
2:5 and spared not [the] old world, but preserved Noe, [the]
 eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in [the]
 flood upon [the] world of [the] ungodly;
2:6 and having reduced [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to
 ashes, condemned [them] with an overthrow, setting [them as] an
 example to those that should [afterwards] live an ungodly life;
2:7 and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned
 conversation of the godless,
2:8 (for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling
 among them, tormented [his] righteous soul day after day with
 [their] lawless works,)
2:9 [the] Lord knows [how] to deliver the godly out of trial,
 and to keep [the] unjust to [the] day of judgment [to be]
 punished;
2:10 and specially those who walk after the flesh in [the] lust
 of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold [are they],
 self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of
 dignities:
2:11 when angels, who are greater in might and power, do not
 bring against them, before the Lord, an injurious charge.
2:12 But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be
 caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are
 ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,
2:13 receiving [the] reward of unrighteousness; accounting
 ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in
 their own deceits, feasting with you;
2:14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin,
 alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in
 covetousness, children of curse;
2:15 having left [the] straight way they have gone astray,
 having followed in the path of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who
 loved [the] reward of unrighteousness;
2:16 but had reproof of his own wickedness -- [the] dumb ass
 speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.
2:17 These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm,
 to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever].
2:18 For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they
 allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those
 who have just fled those who walk in error,
2:19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of
 corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also
 brought into slavery.
2:20 For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world
 through [the] knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
 again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is
 worse than the first.
2:21 For it were better for them not to have known the way of
 righteousness, than having known [it] to turn back from the
 holy commandment delivered to them.
2:22 But that [word] of the true proverb has happened to them:
 [The] dog [has] turned back to his own vomit; and, [The] washed
 sow to [her] rolling in mud.
3:1 This, a second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in
 [both] which I stir up, in the way of putting you in
 remembrance, your pure mind,
3:2 to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy
 prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by
 your apostles;
3:3 knowing this first, that there shall come at [the] close of
 the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own
 lusts,
3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the
 time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from [the]
 beginning of [the] creation.
3:5 For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness,
 that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence
 out of water and in water, by the word of God,
3:6 through which [waters] the then world, deluged with water,
 perished.
3:7 But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid
 up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and
 destruction of ungodly men.
3:8 But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that
 one day with [the] Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a
 thousand years as one day.
3:9 [The] Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of
 delay, but is longsuffering towards you, 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 which
 the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and [the]
 elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and [the]
 earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
3:11 All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye
 to be in holy conversation and godliness,
3:12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by
 reason of which [th