2 Ptr
2 Peter
1:1 Simoer, a servant and an "tle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith :
1:2 Grad peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
1:3 Acc as his divine poue:
1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the diviure, having escaped the corruption that is in the .
1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
1:6 And to knoience 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 her be barren nor unfruitful in the kno.
1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and ot see afar off, and hath fotten that he urged from his old sins.
1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligeo make your calling aion sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
1:11 For so arance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
1:12 Wherefore I h.
1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabero stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
1:14 Knoh shewed me.
1:15 Moreover I hings always in remembrance.
1:16 For y.
1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and gllory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
1:18 And this voice .
1:19 We have also a more sure s:
1:20 Knoion.
1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the .
2:1 But there ion.
2:2 And many shall folloh shall be evil spoken of.
2:3 And through covetousness shall they .
2:4 For if God spared not the ahat sinned, but cast them do;
2:5 And spared not the old he ungodly;
2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes hem er should live ungodly;
2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed he wicked:
2:8 (For that righteous man dheir unlawful deeds;)
2:9 The Lord knoo be punished:
2:10 But chiefly them that ies.
2:11 Whereas angels, he Lord.
2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken aroyed, speak evil of the things that they uand not; and shall utterly perish in their oion;
2:13 And shall receive the reh you;
2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that ot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a they have exercised ices; cursed children:
2:15 Which have forsaken the right eousness;
2:16 But .
2:17 These areof darkness is reserved for ever.
2:18 For hem who live in error.
2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for ofin bondage.
2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the he beginning.
2:21 For it had beeer for them not to have knohem.
2:22 But it is happened unto them acc to the true proverb, The dog is turo his ohe mire.
3:1 This sed epistle, beloved, I noir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
3:2 That ye may be mindful of the he Lord and Saviour:
3:3 Knos,
3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of hising? for sihe fathers fell asleep, all things tinue as they ion.
3:5 For this they er:
3:6 Whereby the er, perished:
3:7 But the heavens and the earth, ion of ungodly men.
3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this ohing, that one day is housand years as one day.
3:9 The Lord is not slack ing his promise, as some men t slaess; but is longsuffering to us-ance.
3:10 But the day of the Lord herein shall be burned up.
3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, ion and godliness,
3:12 Looking for and hasting unto theing of the day of God, ?
3:13 heless eousness.
3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, , and blameless.
3:15 And at that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also acc to the o you;
3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in ion.
3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye knoness.
3:18 But groh now and for ever. Amen.