Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ have obtained the same precious faith that we have:

spiritual blessing and peace be to you in increasing abundance through a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

because His divine power has given us everything that is needful for life and piety, through our full knowledge of Him who through His glory and excellence has called us to Him.

It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.

For by uttering arrogant nonsense, through base desires of the lower nature, they entice into immorality men who are just escaping from those who live in error,

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

to remember the things foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles.

For they willfully ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth that had been formed by God's command out of water and through water,

by which also the world, through being deluged with water, was destroyed.