by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.