The Second Letter Of Peter
 
   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:
 
   1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of
   God, and of Jesus our Lord,
 
   1:3 According as his divine power has given unto us all things that
   pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has
   called us to glory and virtue:
 
   1:4 Whereby are given unto 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.
 
   1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
   and to virtue knowledge;
 
   1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to
   patience godliness;
 
   1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
   love.
 
   1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you
   shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
   Jesus Christ.
 
   1:9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off,
   and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
 
   1:10 Therefore instead, brothers, give diligence to make your calling
   and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
 
   1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into
   the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
 
   1:12 Therefore 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.
 
   1:13 Yes, I think it suitable, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to
   stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
 
   1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, just as
   our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.
 
   1:15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease to
   have these things always in remembrance.
 
   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.
 
   1:17 For 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.
 
   1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with
   him in the holy mount.
 
   1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well
   that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until
   the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
 
   1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
   private interpretation.
 
   1:21 For 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 Ghost.
 
   2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, just as there
   shall be false teachers among you, who secretly shall bring in
   damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring
   upon themselves swift destruction.
 
   2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
   way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
 
   2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
   merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and
   their damnation slumbers not.
 
   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;
 
   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;
 
   2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned
   them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after
   should live ungodly;
 
   2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conduct of the
   wicked:
 
   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;)
 
   2:9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
   reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
 
   2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
   uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self
   willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
 
   2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not
   railing accusation against them before the Lord.
 
   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;
 
   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;
 
   2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
   beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous
   practices; cursed children:
 
   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;
 
   2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with
   man's voice forbad the anger of the prophet.
 
   2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
   tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.
 
   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.
 
   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.
 
   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 in it, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them
   than the beginning.
 
   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.
 
   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.
 
   3:1 This second letter, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I
   stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
 
   3:2 That 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 Saviour:
 
   3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
   scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
 
   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.
 
   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:
 
   3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
   perished:
 
   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.
 
   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.
 
   3:9 The 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.
 
   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 in
   it shall be burned up.
 
   3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner
   of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness,
 
   3:12 Looking for and hasting unto 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?
 
   3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens
   and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
 
   3:14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be
   diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and
   blameless.
 
   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 has written unto you;
 
   3:16 As also in all his letters, 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.
 
   3:17 You 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.
 
   3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
   Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.