For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.

Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

I will also take care that after I am gone you will be able at any time to call these things to mind.

For when he was so honored and glorified by God the Father and from the supreme glory there were borne to him such words as these: "This is my Son, my Beloved! He is my Chosen!"??18 we heard these words borne from heaven when we were with him on that sacred mountain.

against whom even angels far superior to these beings in strength and power bring no abusive charge before the Lord.

These men, like unreasoning animals, mere creatures of instinct created to be caught and killed, abuse what they do not understand and will be destroyed like animals,

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,