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2PE-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:

2PE-1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the 
knowledge of God,

and of Jesus our Lord,

2PE-1:3  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:

2PE-1:4  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.

2PE-1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your 
faith virtue; and

to virtue knowledge;

2PE-1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;
 and to

patience godliness;

2PE-1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly 
kindness

charity.

2PE-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.

2PE-1:9  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot 
see afar off,

and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2PE-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:

2PE-1:11  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you 
abundantly into the

everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2PE-1:12  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.

2PE-1:13  Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this 
tabernacle, to stir

you up by putting [you] in remembrance;

2PE-1:14  Knowing that shortly I must put off [this] my 
tabernacle, even as

our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

2PE-1:15  Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my 
decease to

have these things always in remembrance.

2PE-1:16  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.

2PE-1:17  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.

2PE-1:18  And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when 
we were with

him in the holy mount.

2PE-1:19  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:

2PE-1:20  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture 
is of any

private interpretation.

2PE-1:21  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.

2PE-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.

2PE-2:2  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason 
of whom the

way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

2PE-2:3  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.

2PE-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 unto

judgment;

2PE-2:5  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;

2PE-2:6  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;

2PE-2:7  And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy 
conversation of the

wicked:

2PE-2:8  (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing 
and hearing,

vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] unlawful 
deeds;)

2PE-2:9  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of 
temptations, and to

reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

2PE-2:10  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.

2PE-2:11  Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, 
bring not

railing accusation against them before the Lord.

2PE-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;

2PE-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;

2PE-2:14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease 
from sin;

beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with 
covetous

practices; cursed children:

2PE-2:15  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;

2PE-2:16  But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass 
speaking with man's

voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

2PE-2:17  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried 
with a

tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

2PE-2:18  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.

2PE-2:19  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.

2PE-2:20  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.

2PE-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 unto them.

2PE-2:22  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.

2PE-3:1  This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in 
[both] which I

stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

2PE-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

Saviour:

2PE-3:3  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last 
days scoffers,

walking after their own lusts,

2PE-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.

2PE-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:



2PE-3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with 
water,

perished:

2PE-3:7  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.

2PE-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.

2PE-3:9  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.

2PE-3:10  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.

2PE-3:11  [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be 
dissolved, what

manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation 
and godliness,

2PE-3:12  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?

2PE-3:13  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for 
new heavens and

a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

2PE-3:14  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such 
things, be diligent

that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and 
blameless.

2PE-3:15  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;

2PE-3:16  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.

2PE-3:17  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.

2PE-3:18  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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