2Peter:1-3

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* 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 : * Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God , and of Jesus our Lord , * 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 : * 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 . * And beside this , giving all diligence , add to your faith virtue ; and to virtue knowledge ; * And to knowledge temperance ; and to temperance patience ; and to patience godliness ; * And to godliness brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness charity . * 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 . * But he that lacketh these things is blind , and cannot see afar off , and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins . * Wherefore the rather , brethren , give diligence to make your calling and election sure : for if ye do these things , ye shall never fall : * For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . * 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 . * Yea , I think it meet , as long as I am in this tabernacle , to stir you up by putting you in remembrance ; * Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle , even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me . * Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance . * 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 . * 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 . * And this voice which came from heaven we heard , when we were with him in the holy mount . * 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 : * Knowing this first , that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation . * 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 . * 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 . * And many shall follow their pernicious ways ; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of . * 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 . * 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 ; * 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 ; * 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 ; * And delivered just Lot , vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked : * (For that righteous man dwelling among them , in seeing and hearing , vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds ;) * The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations , and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished : * 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 . * Whereas angels , which are greater in power and might , bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord . * 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 ; * 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 ; * Having eyes full of adultery , and that cannot cease from sin ; beguiling unstable souls : an heart they have exercised with covetous practices ; cursed children : * 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 ; * But was rebuked for his iniquity : the dumb ass speaking with man 's voice forbad the madness of the prophet . * These are wells without water , clouds that are carried with a tempest ; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * This second epistle , beloved , I now write unto you ; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance : * 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 : * Knowing this first , that there shall come in the last days scoffers , walking after their own lusts , * 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 . * 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 : * Whereby the world that then was , being overflowed with water , perished : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved , what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness , * 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 ? * Nevertheless we , according to his promise , look for new heavens and a new earth , wherein dwelleth righteousness . * Wherefore , beloved , seeing that ye look for such things , be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace , without spot , and blameless . * 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 ; * 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 . * 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 . * 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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