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11  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 .

12  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge 
of God and of Jesus our Lord .

13  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 .

14  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 .

15  And beside this giving all diligence add to your faith 
virtue and to virtue knowledge .

16  And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and 
to patience godliness .

17  And to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly 
kindness charity .

18  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 .

19  But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see 
afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins 
.

110  Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your 
calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall 
never fall .

111  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly 
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ .

112  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 .

113  Yea I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle to 
stir you up by putting you in remembrance .

114  Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle even 
as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me .

115  Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my 
decease to have these things always in remembrance .

116  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 .

117  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 .

118  And this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were 
with him in the holy mount .

119  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 .

120  Knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of 
any private interpretation .

121  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 .

* 21  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 .

22  And many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of 
whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of .

23  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 .

24  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 .

25  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 .

26  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 .

27  And delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of 
the wicked .

28  (For that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and 
hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their 
unlawful deeds .

29  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations 
and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be 
punished .

210  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 .

211  Whereas angels which are greater in power and might bring 
not railing accusation against them before the Lord .

212  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 .

213  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 .

214  Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin 
beguiling unstable souls an heart they have exercised with 
covetous practices cursed children .

215  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 .

216  But was rebuked for his iniquity the dumb ass speaking with 
man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet .

217  These are wells without water clouds that are carried with 
a tempest to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever .

218  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 .

219  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 .

220  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 .

221  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 .

222  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 .

* 31  This second epistle beloved I now write unto you in both 
which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance .

32  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 .

33  Knowing this first that there shall come in the last days 
scoffers walking after their own lusts .

34  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 .

35  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 .

36  Whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water 
perished .

37  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 .

38  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 .

39  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men 
count slackness but is longsuffering to us-ward not willing that 
any should perish but that all should come to repentance .

310  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 therein shall be burned up .

311  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what 
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and 
godliness .

312  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God 
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the 
elements shall melt with fervent heat .

313  Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new 
heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness .

314  Wherefore beloved seeing that ye look for such things be 
diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and 
blameless .

315  And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation 
even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom 
given unto him hath written unto you .

316  As also in all his epistles 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 .

317  Ye therefore beloved seeing ye know these things before 
beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked 
fall from your own stedfastness .

318  But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ To him be glory both now and for ever Amen .

 



 

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