through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;

Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of these things, although knowing them and established in the present truth.

but I will use diligence, that after my departure ye should have also, at any time, in your power to call to mind these things.

But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,

These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever.

For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,

Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless;

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness: