| 1:1 |
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: |
| 1:2 |
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;, |
| 1:3 |
seeingfor that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. |
| 1:4 |
ForThrough by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world byon account of lust. |
| 1:8 |
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they renderdo not make you neither useless nor unfruitfulunproductive in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:9 |
For hethe one who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. |
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Therefore, brethrenbrothers and sisters, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosingchoice of you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; |
| 1:12 |
Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you. |
| 1:17 |
For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such ana utterancedeclaration as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory,: “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well- pleased”— |
| 1:18 |
and we ourselves heard this utterancedeclaration made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. |
| 1:19 |
And Soso we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. |
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But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture isbecomes a matter of onesomeone’s own interpretation, |
| 2:1 |
But false prophets also aroseappeared among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. |
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Many will follow their sensualityindecent behavior, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; |
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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reservedheld for judgment; |
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and did not spare the ancient world, but preservedprotected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; |
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and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example toof thosewhat whois wouldcoming livefor the ungodly lives thereafter; |
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and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the sensualperverted conduct of unprincipledunscrupulous menpeople |
| 2:9 |
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptationa trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, |
| 2:10 |
and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desirespassion, and despise authority. DaringReckless, self-willedcentered, they dospeak notabusively trembleof whenangelic theymajesties revilewithout angelic majestiestrembling, |
| 2:11 |
whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a revilingdemeaning judgment against them before the Lord. |
| 2:12 |
But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, revilingusing abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, |
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suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carousefeast with you, |
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having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having ahearts heart trained in greed, accursed children; |
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forsakingabandoning the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wagesreward of unrighteousness; |
| 2:16 |
but he received a rebuke for his own transgressionoffense, for a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice of a man, restrained the madnessinsanity of the prophet. |
| 2:18 |
For, while speaking out arrogant words of vanityno value they entice by fleshly desires, by sensualityindecent behavior, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, |
| 2:19 |
promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what aanyone man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. |
| 3:1 |
ThisBeloved, this is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of a reminder, |
| 3:2 |
thatto you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles. |
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and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continuesthings continue just as itthey waswere from the beginning of creation.” |
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through which the world at that time was destroyed, by being flooded with water. |
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But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly menpeople. |
| 3:9 |
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishingwilling for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. |
| 3:10 |
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned updiscovered. |
| 3:14 |
Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless by Him, inat peace, spotless and blameless, |
| 3:16 |
as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. |
| 3:17 |
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipledunscrupulous menpeople and falllose from your own steadfastnessfirm commitment, |