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Simon Peter, a bond servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to themthose thatwho have obtainedreceived a likefaith preciousof faiththe withsame uskind inas ours, by the righteousness of our God and theSavior, Saviour Jesus Christ: |
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Grace to you and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; |
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seeing that hisHis divine power hathhas granted untoto us alleverything thingspertaining thatto pertain unto life and godliness, through the true knowledge of himHim thatwho called us by hisHis own glory and virtue;excellence. |
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wherebyFor heby haththese He has granted untoto us hisHis precious and exceedingmagnificent great promises;, in order that throughby thesethem yeyou maymight become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. |
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Yea,Now and for this very causereason addingalso, onapplying your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue;moral excellence, and in your virtuemoral excellence, knowledge; |
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and in your knowledge, self control;, and in your self control, patience;perseverance, and in your patienceperseverance, godliness; |
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and in your godliness, brotherly kindness;, and in your brotherly kindness, love. |
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For if these thingsqualities are yours and aboundare increasing, they makerender you toneither beuseless not idle nor unfruitful untoin the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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For he thatwho lackethlacks these thingsqualities is blind, seeingor onlyshort what is nearsighted, having forgotten thehis cleansingpurification from his oldformer sins. |
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WhereforeTherefore, brethren, givebe all the more diligencediligent to make yourcertain about His calling and electionchoosing sure:you; for ifas yelong doas you practice these things, yeyou shallwill never stumble:; |
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for thusin shallthis beway richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and SaviourSavior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you. |
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WhereforeTherefore, I shall always be ready always to putremind you in remembrance of these things, even though yeyou already know them, and arehave been established in the truth which is present with you. |
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And I thinkconsider it right, as long as I am in this tabernacleearthly dwelling, to stir you up by puttingway youof in remembrance;reminder, |
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knowing that the puttinglaying offaside of my tabernacleearthly comethdwelling swiftlyis imminent, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ signifiedhas untomade clear to me. |
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Yea,And I will givealso diligencebe diligent that at everyany time yeafter my departure you may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrancemind. |
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For we did not follow cunninglycleverly devised fables,tales when we made known untoto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of hisHis majesty. |
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For hewhen He received honor and glory from God the Father, honorsuch andan glory,utterance whenas therethis was bornemade such a voice to himHim by the Majestic Glory, This is myMy beloved Son, inwith whom I am well pleased: |
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and this voice we ourselves heard bornethis oututterance ofmade from heaven, when we were with himHim inon the holy mountmountain. |
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And so we have the prophetic word of prophecy made more sure;, whereuntoto yewhich you do well thatto yepay takeattention heed, as untoto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn,dawns and the daymorning star arisearises in your hearts:. |
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knowingBut know this first of all, that no prophecy of scriptureScripture is a matter of privateones own interpretation., |
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Forfor no prophecy was ever camemade by thean willact of man:human will, but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. |
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But there arose false prophets also arose among the people, just as amongthere youwill also there shall be false teachers among you, who shallwill privilysecretly bringintroduce in destructive heresies, even denying even the Master thatwho bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves swift destruction. |
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And many shallwill follow their lascivioussensuality, doings;and bybecause reason of whomthem the way of the truth shallwill be evil spoken of.maligned; |
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Andand in covetousnesstheir shallgreed they withwill feignedexploit wordsyou makewith merchandisefalse ofwords; you:their whosejudgment sentence now from oflong oldago lingerethis not idle, and their destruction slumberethis not asleep. |
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For if God spareddid not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them downinto to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved untofor judgment; |
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and spareddid not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when heHe brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; |
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and turningif He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah intoto ashesdestruction condemnedby reducing them withto an overthrowashes, having made them an example untoto those thatwho shouldwould live ungodly thereafter; |
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and deliveredif He rescued righteous Lot, soreoppressed distressed by the lascivioussensual lifeconduct of theunprincipled wickedmen |
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for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, dwellingwhile living among them, infelt seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul fromtormented day toafter day with their lawless deeds:, |
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then the Lord knowethknows how to deliverrescue the godly outfrom of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment untofor the day of judgment;, |
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butand chieflyespecially themthose thatwho walkindulge after the flesh in theits lustcorrupt ofdesires defilement, and despise dominionauthority. Daring, self willedselfwilled, they trembledo not totremble railwhen atthey dignities:revile angelic majesties, |
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whereas angels, thoughwho are greater in might and power, bringdo not bring a railingreviling judgment against them before the Lord. |
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But these, aslike creaturesunreasoning without reasonanimals, born mereas animalscreatures of instinct to be takencaptured and destroyedkilled, railingreviling inwhere mattersthey whereofhave theyno are ignorantknowledge, shallwill in theirthe destroyingdestruction surelyof those creatures also be destroyed, |
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suffering wrong as the hirewages of wrong doing; menwrong. thatThey count it a pleasure to revel in the daydaytime. time,They spotsare stains and blemishes, revellingreveling in their deceivingsdeceptions, whileas they feastcarouse with you;, |
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having eyes full of adultery, and that cannotnever cease from sin;, enticing unstedfastunstable souls;, having a heart exercisedtrained in covetousness;greed, accursed children of cursing; |
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forsaking the right way, they wenthave gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the hirewages of wrong doing;unrighteousness, |
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but he wasreceived rebukeda rebuke for his own transgression:; for a dumb assdonkey, spakespeaking with mansa voice andof stayeda man, restrained the madness of the prophet. |
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These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm;, for whom the blacknessblack of darkness hathhas been reserved. |
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For, utteringspeaking greatout swellingarrogant words of vanity, they entice inby thefleshly lusts of the fleshdesires, by lasciviousnesssensuality, those who arebarely justescape escaping from themthe thatones who live in error;, |
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promising them liberty,freedom while they themselves are bondservantsslaves of corruption; for ofby whomwhat a man is overcome, ofby thethis samehe is he also brought into bondageenslaved. |
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For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world throughby the knowledge of the Lord and SaviourSavior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled thereinin them and are overcome, the last state ishas become worse withfor them than the first. |
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For it werewould be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, afterhaving knowingknown it, to turn backaway from the holy commandment delivered untoto them. |
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It has happened untoto them according to the true proverb, TheA dog turningreturns to hisits own vomit again, and, theA sow, thatafter hadwashing, washedreturns to wallowing in the mire. |
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This is now, beloved, the second epistleletter that I writeam untowriting to you; and in bothwhich ofI themam Istirring stir up your sincere mind by puttingway youof in remembrance;reminder, |
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that yeyou should remember the words which were spoken beforebeforehand by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and SaviourSavior throughspoken by your apostles:. |
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knowingKnow this first of all, that in the last days mockers shallwill come with mockerytheir mocking, walkingfollowing after their own lusts, |
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and saying, Where is the promise of hisHis coming? for,For fromever thesince day that the fathers fell asleep, all thingscontinues continuejust as theyit werewas from the beginning of the creation. |
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For thiswhen they wilfullymaintain forgetthis, it escapes their notice that thereby werethe word of God the heavens fromexisted oflong old,ago and anthe earth compactedwas formed out of water and amidstby water, by the word of God; |
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bythrough which means the world at that thentime was destroyed, being overflowedflooded with water, perished:. |
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butBut the present heavens that now are, and the earth, by theHis same word haveare beenbeing storedreserved up for fire, beingkept reservedfor against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. |
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But forgetdo not let this one thingfact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. |
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The Lord is not slackslow concerningabout hisHis promise, as some count slackness;slowness, but is longsufferingpatient totoward you ward, not wishing thatfor any shouldto perish, but thatfor all shouldto come to repentance. |
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But the day of the Lord will come aslike a thief;, in the which the heavens shallwill pass away with a greatroar noise, and the elements shallwill be dissolveddestroyed with ferventintense heat, and the earth and theits works thatwill are therein shall be burned up. |
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SeeingSince thatall these things are thus all to be dissolveddestroyed in this way, what mannersort of personspeople ought yeyou to be in all holy livingconduct and godliness, |
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looking for and earnestlyhastening desiring the coming of the day of God, byon reasonaccount of which the heavens beingwill onbe firedestroyed shallby be dissolvedburning, and the elements shallwill melt with ferventintense heat?! |
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But, according to hisHis promise, we lookare looking for new heavens and a new earth, whereinin dwellethwhich righteousness dwells. |
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WhereforeTherefore, beloved, seeingsince thatyou ye look for these things, givebe diligencediligent thatto ye may be found by Him in peace, withoutspotless spot and blameless in his sight., |
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Andand accountregard that the longsufferingpatience of our Lord isto be salvation; evenjust as also our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote untoto you;, |
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as also in all his epistlesletters, speaking in them of these things;, whereinin which are some things hard to be understoodunderstand, which the ignorantuntaught and unstedfastunstable wrestdistort, as they do also the otherrest scripturesof the Scriptures, untoto their own destruction. |
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YeYou therefore, beloved, knowing thesethis things beforehand, bewarebe on your guard lest, being carried away withby the error of theunprincipled wickedmen, yeyou fall from your own stedfastness.steadfastness, |
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Butbut grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and SaviourSavior Jesus Christ. To himHim be the glory, both now and forto everthe day of eternity. Amen. |