By which he hath given us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these, having escaped the corruption which is in the world thro' desire, ye may become partakers of the divine nature:

For these being in you and abounding, make you neither slothful nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But he that wanteth these is blind, not able to see afar off, having forgotten the purification from his old sins.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election firm; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth,

But I will endeavour, that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

But these, as natural brute beasts, born to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand not, and shall perish in their own corruption,

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved for ever.

Seeing then all these things are dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye look for these things, labour to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.

As also in all his epistles, speaking therein of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, beware, lest ye also being led away by the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness: