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BOOK 61

 SECOND LETTER FROM PETER

CHAPTER 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:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge of
God, and of Jesus our Lord,
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:
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.
5 And beside this, giving all
diligence, add to your faith virtue;
and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance;
and to temperance patience; and to
patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity.
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.
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.
10 Wherefore the rather,
brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if ye
do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be
ministered unto you abundantly into
the everlasting kingdom of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long
as I am in this tabernacle, to stir
you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must
put off this my tabernacle, even as
our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
15 Moreover I will endeavour
that ye may be able after my decease
to have these things always in
remembrance.
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.
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.
18 And this voice which came
from heaven we heard, when we were
with him in the holy mount.
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:
20 Knowing this first, that no
prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation.
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.

CHAPTER 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 And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom
the way of truth shall be evil spoken
of.
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.
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;
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;
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;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed
with the filthy conversation of the
wicked:
8 (For that righteous man
dwelling among them, in seeing and
hearing, vexed his righteous soul
from day to day with their unlawful
deeds;)
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:
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.
11 Whereas angels, which are
greater in power and might, bring not
railing accusation against them
before the Lord.
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;
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;
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:
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;
16 But was rebuked for his
iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with
man's voice forbad the madness of the
prophet.
17 These are wells without
water, clouds that are carried with a
tempest: to whom the mist of darkness
is reserved for ever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

CHAPTER 3
1 This second epistle, beloved,
I now write unto you; in both which I
stir up your pure minds by way of
remembrance:
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 Knowing this first, that there
shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts,
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.
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:
6 Whereby the world that then
was, being overflowed with water,
perished:
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.
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.
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.
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.
11 Seeing then that all these
things shall be dissolved, what
manner of persons ought ye to be in
all holy conversation and godliness,
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?
13 Nevertheless we, according to
his promise, look for new heavens and
a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.