according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue,

through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past.

knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

We also have a more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts,

knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of its own private interpretation.

For that righteous one living among them, in seeing and hearing, his righteous soul was tormented from day to day with their unlawful deeds.

But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,

First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts

For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,

through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished.

But, beloved, let not this one thing be hidden from you, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.