2PE-11 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-12 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord .
2PE-13 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-14 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-15 And beside this giving all diligence add to your faith
virtue and to virtue knowledge .
2PE-16 And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience
and to patience godliness .
2PE-17 And to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly
kindness charity .
2PE-18 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-19 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-110 Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make
your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye
shall never fall .
2PE-111 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ .
2PE-112 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-113 Yea I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle
to stir you up by putting you in remembrance .
2PE-114 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle
even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me .
2PE-115 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my
decease to have these things always in remembrance .
2PE-116 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-117 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-118 And this voice which came from heaven we heard when we
were with him in the holy mount .
2PE-119 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-120 Knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is
of any private interpretation .
2PE-121 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-21 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-22 And many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of
whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of .
2PE-23 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-24 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-25 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-26 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-27 And delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked .
2PE-28 For that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and
hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their
unlawful deeds .
2PE-29 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-210 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-211 Whereas angels which are greater in power and might
bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord .
2PE-212 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-213 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-214 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-215 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-216 But was rebuked for his iniquity the dumb ass speaking
with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet .
2PE-217 These are wells without water clouds that are carried
with a tempest to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever
.
2PE-218 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-219 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-220 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-221 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-222 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-31 This second epistle beloved I now write unto you in
both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance .
2PE-32 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-33 Knowing this first that there shall come in the last
days scoffers walking after their own lusts .
2PE-34 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-35 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-36 Whereby the world that then was being overflowed with
water perished .
2PE-37 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-38 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-39 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-310 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-311 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved
what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation
and godliness .
2PE-312 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-313 Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new
heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness .
2PE-314 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-315 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-316 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-317 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-318 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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