And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding you,

for having received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being borne to him by the excellent glory: 'This is My Son -- the beloved, in whom I was well pleased;'

and this voice we -- we did hear, out of heaven borne, being with him in the holy mount.

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding you,

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;