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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.
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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.
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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
scoffers,
walking after their own lusts,
3:4 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.
3:5 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:
3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished:
3:7 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.
3:8 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.
3:9 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.
3:10 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.
3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved, what
manner
of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation
and godliness,
3:12 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?
3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens
and a
new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent
that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and
blameless.
3:15 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;
3:16 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.
3:17 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.
3:18 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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