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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 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:
1:4 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.
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 charity.
1:8 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.
1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see
afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old
sins.
1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make
your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye
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 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.
1:13 Yea, I think it meet, 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,
even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.
1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye 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 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.
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 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:
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 spake as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.
2:1 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.
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 lingereth
not, and their damnation slumbereth 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 ensample unto
those that after should live ungodly;
2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation
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 knoweth 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],
selfwilled, 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: an 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 madness 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 for
ever.
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 therein, 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 epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in
both] which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
3:2 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:
3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
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