Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;

And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:

and this voice we ourselves heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;

But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.