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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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