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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 Savior Jesus Christ:
1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge
 of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
1:3 According as his divine power hath given to us all things
 that [pertain] to life and godliness, through the knowledge of
 him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
1:4 Whereby are given to 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 besides 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 purified 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 to you abundantly
 into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus
 Christ.
1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in
 remembrance of these things, though ye know [them], and are
 established in the present truth.
1:13 Indeed, 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 shown me.
1:15 Moreover, I will endeavor 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 to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
 Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
1:17 For he received from God the Father honor 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 on the holy mount.
1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which ye do
 well that ye take heed, as to 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 prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but
 holy men of God spoke [as they were] moved by the Holy Spirit.
2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as
 there will be false teachers among you, who will privately
 bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought
 them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2:2 And many will follow their pernicious ways; by reason of
 whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of.
2:3 And through covetousness they will 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 to judgment;
2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth
 [person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood upon
 the world of the ungodly;
2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes,
 condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an example to
 those that afterwards should live ungodly lives.
2:7 And delivered just Lot, grieved with the habitual lewdness
 of the wicked:
2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and
 hearing, grieved [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 to 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],
 self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2:11 Whereas angels, who 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: they have a heart exercised with
 covetous practices; cursed children:
2:15 Who have forsaken the right way, and 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 had quite escaped from them who live in
 error.
2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the
 servants of corruption: for by whom a man is overcome, by the
 same is he brought into bondage.
2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
 through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they
 are again entangled in them, 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 to them.
2:22 But it hath happened to 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.
3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write to 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 Savior:
3:3 Knowing this first, that there will 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 By which 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 to 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 long-suffering toward us, 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 which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the
 elements will melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the
 works that are therein will be burned up.
3:11 [Seeing] then [that] all these things will be dissolved,
 what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy
 deportment and godliness,
3:12 Looking for and hasting to the coming of the day