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 if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall.

Therefore I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

And I will also be diligent to cause you to always have memory of these things after my departure.

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,

These are wells without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.

Then, all these things being about to be dissolved, what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness,

Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent, spotless, and without blemish, to be found by Him in peace.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction).