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1:1Simon
Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a
like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and the
Saviour Jesus Christ: 1:2Grace to you and peace be multiplied
in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 1:3seeing that his divine power hath
granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through
the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue; 1:4whereby he hath
granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through
these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from
the corruption that is in that world by lust. 1:5Yea, and for this very cause adding on
your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your
virtue knowledge; 1:6and in your knowledge
self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your
patience godliness; 1:7and in your godliness brotherly
kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love. 1:8For if these
things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful
unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9For he that lacketh these things is
blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his
old sins. 1:10Wherefore, brethren, give the more
diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these
things, ye shall never stumble: 1:11for thus shall be richly supplied
unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. 1:12Wherefore I shall be ready always to
put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are
established in the truth which is with you. 1:13And I think it
right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you
in remembrance; 1:14knowing that the putting off of my
tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto
me. 1:15Yea,
I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease
to call these things to remembrance. 1:16For we did not follow cunningly
devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 1:17For he received
from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to
him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased: 1:18and this voice we ourselves
heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount. 1:19And we have the
word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take
heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the
day-star arise in your hearts: 1:20knowing this first, that no prophecy
of scripture is of private interpretation. 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will
of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
2:1But
there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there
shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies,
denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift
destruction. 2:2And many shall follow their lascivious
doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
2:3And in
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose
sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth
not. 2:4For
if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and
committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 2:5and spared not
the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of
righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2:6and
turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an
overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live
ungodly; 2:7and delivered righteous Lot, sore
distressed by the lascivious life 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 lawless deeds): 2:9the Lord knoweth
how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous
under punishment unto the day of judgment; 2:10but chiefly them that walk after the
flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring,
self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities: 2:11whereas angels,
though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against
them before the Lord. 2:12But these, as creatures without
reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters
whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,
2:13suffering
wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to
revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings
while they feast with you; 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and
that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart
exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; 2:15forsaking the
right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the
son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing; 2:16but he was
rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and
stayed the madness of the prophet. 2:17These are springs without water, and
mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been
reserved. 2:18For, uttering great swelling
words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by
lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
2:19promising
them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of
whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. 2:20For if, after
they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of
the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and
overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. 2:21For it were
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after
knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2:22It has
happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his
own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.
3:1This is
now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of
them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance; 3:2that ye should
remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the
commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles: 3:3knowing this
first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking
after their own lusts, 3:4and saying, Where is the promise of
his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 3:5For this they
willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth
compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God; 3:6by which means
the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 3:7but the heavens
that 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. 3:8But forget not this one thing,
beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day. 3:9The Lord is not slack concerning his
promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not
wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
3:10But the
day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass
away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent
heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
3:11Seeing
that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons
ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness, 3:12looking for and
earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the
heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat? 3:13But, according to his promise, we
look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye
look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace,
without spot and blameless in his sight. 3:15And account that the longsuffering of
our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to
the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you; 3:16as also in all his epistles,
speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be
understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do
also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 3:17Ye therefore,
beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being
carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own
stedfastness. 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now
and for ever. Amen.
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