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Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to themthose thatwho have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and theSavior, Saviour Jesus Christ: |
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Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;, |
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seeing that his divine power hathhas granted untoto us all things that pertain untoto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him thatwho called us by his own glory and virtue;, |
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wherebyby which he hathhas granted untoto us his precious and exceedingexceedingly great promises; that through these yeyou may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. |
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YeaYes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtuemoral excellence; and in yourmoral virtueexcellence, knowledge; |
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and in your knowledge, self control; and in your self control, patienceperseverance; and in yourperseverance, patience godliness; |
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and in your godliness, brotherly kindnessaffection; and in your brotherly kindnessaffection, love. |
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For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be not idle noror unfruitful untoin the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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For he thatwho lackethlacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. |
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WhereforeTherefore, brethrenbrothers, givebe the more diligencediligent to make your calling and election sure:. forFor if yeyou do these things, yeyou shallwill never stumble:. |
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forFor thus shallyou will be richly supplied untowith you the entrance into the eternal kingdomKingdom of our Lord and SaviourSavior, Jesus Christ. |
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WhereforeTherefore I shallwill not be readynegligent always to putremind you in remembrance of these things, though yeyou know them, and are established in the present truth which is with you. |
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And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacletent, to stir you up by puttingreminding you in remembrance;, |
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knowing that the putting off of my tabernacletent comethcomes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signifiedmade untoclear to me. |
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YeaYes, I will givemake diligenceevery effort that atyou everymay timealways ye may be able after my decease to callremember these things toeven remembranceafter my departure. |
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For we diddidnt not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known untoto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. |
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For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when therethe wasvoice bornecame such a voice to him byfrom the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:. |
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andWe heard this voice wecome ourselves heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him inon the holy mountmountain. |
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AndWe we have the more sure word of prophecy made more sure; whereuntoand yeyou do well that yeyou take heed, it 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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knowing this first, that no prophecy of scriptureScripture is of private interpretation. |
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For no prophecy ever came by the will of man:, but holy men spakeof fromGod Godspoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit. |
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But there arose false prophets also arose among the people, as amongfalse youteachers will also there shall be falseamong teachersyou, who shallwill privilysecretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master thatwho bought them, bringing uponon themselves swift destruction. |
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AndMany manywill shall follow their lasciviousimmoral doings;ways, byand reasonas ofa whomresult, the way of the truth shallwill be evil spoken ofmaligned. |
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AndIn in covetousness shall they withwill feignedexploit wordsyou makewith merchandisedeceptive of youwords: whose sentence now from of old lingerethdoesnt notlinger, and their destruction slumberethwill not slumber. |
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For if God spareddidnt notspare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hellTartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved untofor judgment; |
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and spareddidnt notspare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood uponon the world of the ungodly;, |
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and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them withto an overthrowdestruction, having made them an example untoto those thatwho shouldwould live in an ungodly; way, |
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and delivered righteous Lot, sorewho was very distressed by the lasciviouslustful life of the wicked |
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for that righteous man dwelling among them, inwas seeingtormented andin hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with theirseeing and hearing lawless deeds:, |
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then the Lord knowethknows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment untofor the day of judgment;, |
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but chiefly themthose thatwho walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominionauthority. Daring, self willed, they trembleare not afraid to railspeak atevil dignities:of dignitaries, |
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whereas angels, though greater in might and power, dont bring not a railingslanderous judgment against them before the Lord. |
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But these, as unreasoning creatures without reason, born merenatural animals to be taken and destroyed, railingspeaking evil in matters whereofabout which they are ignorant, shallwill in their destroying surely be destroyed, |
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sufferingreceiving wrong as the hirewages of wrong doingunrighteousness; menpeople thatwho count it pleasure to revel in the day timedaytime, spots and blemishesdefects, revellingreveling in their deceivingsdeceit while they feast with you; |
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having eyes full of adultery, and thatwho cannotcant cease from sin;, enticing unstedfastunsettled souls;, having a heart exercisedtrained in covetousness;greed, accursed children of cursing;! |
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forsakingForsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hirewages of wrong doingwrongdoing; |
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but he was rebuked for his own transgression:disobedience. aA dumbspeechless assdonkey spakespoke with a mans voice and stayedstopped the madness of the prophet. |
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These are springswells without water, andclouds mists driven by a storm;, for whom the blackness of darkness hathhas been reserved forever. |
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For, uttering great swelling words of vanityemptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousnesslicentiousness, those who are justindeed escaping from themthose thatwho live in error; |
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promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome,brought ofinto thebondage sameby iswhoever heovercomes also brought into bondagehim. |
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For if, after they have escaped the defilementsdefilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and SaviourSavior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled thereinin it and 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, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered untoto them. |
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ItBut it has happened untoto them according to the true proverb, The dog turningturns to his own vomit again, and the sow that hadhas washed to wallowing in the mire. |
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This is now, beloved, the second epistleletter that I writehave untowritten to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by puttingreminding you in remembrance; |
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that yeyou should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the Lordapostles andof Saviourthe throughLord yourand apostles:Savior, |
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knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shallwill come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, |
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and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? forFor, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. |
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For this they wilfullywillfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compactedformed out of water and amidstamid water, by the word of God;, |
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by which means the world that existed then was, being overflowed with water, perished:. |
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butBut the heavens that exist now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. |
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But dont forget not this one thing, beloved, that 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 concerning his promise, as some count slacknessslowness; but he is longsufferingpatient towith you wardus, not wishing that anyanyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. |
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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the night, in which the heavens shallwill pass away with a great noise, and the elements shallwill be dissolved with fervent heat,; and the earth and the works that are thereinin shallit will be burned up. |
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SeeingTherefore, thatsince all these things arewill thusbe alldestroyed tolike be dissolvedthis, what mannerkind of personspeople ought yeyou to be in all holy living and godliness, |
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looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, bywhich reasonwill ofcause which the burning heavens beingto on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shallwill melt with fervent heat? |
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But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, whereinin dwellethwhich righteousness dwells. |
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WhereforeTherefore, beloved, seeing that yeyou look for these things, givebe diligencediligent thatto ye may be found in peace, without spotdefect and blameless in his sight. |
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AndRegard account that the longsufferingpatience of our Lord isas salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote untoto you;, |
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as also in all of his epistlesletters, speaking in them of these things;. whereinIn those, there are some things that are hard to be understoodunderstand, which the ignorant and unstedfastunsettled wresttwist, as they also do alsoto the other scripturesScriptures, untoto their own destruction. |
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YeYou therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, yeyou fall from your own stedfastnesssteadfastness. |
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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and SaviourSavior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and for everforever. Amen. |