Simon Peter, a bondservant and Apostle of Jesus Christ: To those to whom there has been allotted the same precious faith as that which is ours through the righteousness of our God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

for in this way entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly provided to you.

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.

But first be assured of this:--There is no prophetic teaching found in Scripture that can be interpreted by man's unaided reason;

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.

There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned.

For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;

and if He rescued the righteous man Lot, who had become very disturbed by unrestrained wickedness [of the people there in Sodom].

(for that just man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by what he saw and heard of their lawless acts),

The thing spoken of in the true proverb has happened to them, “The dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “A sow is washed only to wallow [again] in the mire.”

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

For 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;

But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget. With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand years resemble one day.

speaking about these things as he does in all of his letters. In which there are some things that are difficult to understand, which the untaught and unstable [who have fallen into error] twist and misinterpret, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.