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2nd. Peter 1
1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those
who have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of
God and our Savior Jesus Christ: 2Grace and peace be multiplied
to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
3According as his divine power has given to us all things that
pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who
has called us to glory and virtue: 4By which are given to us
exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers
of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
through lust.
5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
and to virtue knowledge; 6And to knowledge temperance; and to
temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7And to godliness
brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love. 8For if these
things are in you and abound, they make you so that you shall neither
be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9But he who lacks these things is blind and cannot see afar off
and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10Therefore rather, brothers, give diligence to make your calling
and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
11For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into
the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12Therefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance
of these things, though you know them and be established in the
present truth. 13Yes, I think it fitting, as long as I am in this
tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle,
even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me. 15Moreover I will
endeavor that after my decease you may be able to have these things always
in remembrance.
16For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made
known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye
witnesses of his majesty. 17For he received from God the Father
honor 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. 18And this
voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy
mount.
19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which you do well
that you take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the
day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts: 20Knowing this
first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but
holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
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Chapter 2
1But there were also false prophets among the people, even as
there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them and bring on themselves swift
destruction. 2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by
reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3And through covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with
feigned words: whose judgment now of a long time does not linger and their
damnation does not slumber. 4For if God spared not the angels
who sinned, but cast them down to hades and delivered them
into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared
not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher
of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned
them with an overthrow, making them an example to those
who should afterward live ungodly;
7And 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;) 9The Lord knows how to deliver
the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment
to be punished:
10But chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness and despise government. They are presumptuous, self willed, they
are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11While angels, who
are greater in power and might, do not bring railing accusations against
them before the Lord. 12But these, as natural brute beasts, made
to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they do not understand;
and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13And shall
receive the reward of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure
to riot in the day time. They are spots and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14Having eyes full of adultery and who cannot cease from sin;
beguiling unstable souls: they have a heart exercised with covetous practices;
cursed children: 15Who have forsaken the right way and have gone
astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved
the wages of unrighteousness; 16But was rebuked for his iniquity:
the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet.
17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with
a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness,
those who were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19While
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.
20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through
the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
in them and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21For it would have 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 to them. 22But it happens to them
according to the true proverb, The dog is turned again to his own
vomit; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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Chapter 3
1This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you; in which I
stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2That you 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 Savior:
3Knowing this first, that scoffers shall come in the last days,
walking after their own lusts, 4And 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. 5For they
are willingly ignorant of this, that by the word of God the heavens were
of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6By which the world that was then, being overflowed [with] water,
perished: 7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the
same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men.
8But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one
day is as a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years as
one day.
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance. 10But the day of the Lord
will come as a thief in the night; in 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 in it shall be burned up.
11Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all
holy conversation and godliness, 12Looking for and hurrying to
the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13But
we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which
righteousness dwells. 14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look
for such things, be diligent that you may be found by him in peace, without
spot and blameless. 15And account that the longsuffering
of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also
according to the wisdom given to him has written to you; 16As
also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which
are some things hard to be understood, which those who are unlearned and
unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own
destruction. 17You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these
things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of
the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 18But grow in grace
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him
be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
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