| 001:001
| 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: |
| 001:002 | Grace
and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus
our Lord, |
| 001:003 | 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:
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| 001:004 | 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. |
| 001:005 | And
beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue
knowledge; |
| 001:006 | And
to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
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| 001:007 | And
to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. |
| 001:008 | 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. |
| 001:009 | But
he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins. |
| 001:010 | Wherefore
the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure:
for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: |
| 001:011 | For
so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. |
| 001:012 | 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. |
| 001:013 | Yea,
I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting
you in remembrance; |
| 001:014 | Knowing
that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ
hath shewed me. |
| 001:015 | Moreover
I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things
always in remembrance. |
| 001:016 | 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. |
| 001:017 | 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. |
| 001:018 | And
this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy
mount. |
| 001:019 | 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: |
| 001:020 | Knowing
this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
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| 001:021 | 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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| 002:001
| 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. | | 002:002 | And
many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of. |
| 002:003 | 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. |
| 002:004 | 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; |
| 002:005 | 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; |
| 002:006 | 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;
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| 002:007 | And
delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: |
| 002:008 | (For
that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous
soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) |
| 002:009 | The
Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the
unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: |
| 002:010 | 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. |
| 002:011 | Whereas
angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation
against them before the Lord. |
| 002:012 | 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; |
| 002:013 | 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; |
| 002:014 | Having
eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls:
an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: |
| 002:015 | 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; |
| 002:016 | But
was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad
the madness of the prophet. |
| 002:017 | These
are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the
mist of darkness is reserved for ever. |
| 002:018 | 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. |
| 002:019 | 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. |
| 002:020 | 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. |
| 002:021 | 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. |
| 002:022 | 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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| 003:001
| This
second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your
pure minds by way of remembrance: | | 003:002 | 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: |
| 003:003 | Knowing
this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after
their own lusts, |
| 003:004 | 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. |
| 003:005 | 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: |
| 003:006 | Whereby
the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: |
| 003:007 | 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.
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| 003:008 | 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. |
| 003:009 | 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. |
| 003:010 | 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. |
| 003:011 | Seeing
then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought
ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, |
| 003:012 | 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?
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| 003:013 | Nevertheless
we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein
dwelleth righteousness. |
| 003:014 | Wherefore,
beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found
of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. |
| 003:015 | 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; |
| 003:016 | 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. |
| 003:017 | 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.
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| 003:018 | 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. |