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- II PETER:
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-
- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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;
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- 6. And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and
- to patience godliness;
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- 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:
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- 11. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
- into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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- 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.
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- 13. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to
- stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 20. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of
- any private interpretation.
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- 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
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-
- 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.
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- 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;
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- 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;
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- 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;
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- 7. And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of
- the wicked:
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- 8. (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and
- hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their
- unlawful deeds;)
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- 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:
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- 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;
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- 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;
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- 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:
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- 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;
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- CHAPTER 3
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-
- 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:
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- 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.
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- 11. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what
- manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and
- godliness,
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- 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.
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- 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;
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- 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.
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- 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.
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