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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