I think it right as long as I am in this tabernacle, to excite you by remembrance,

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when this voice was brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

And this voice we heard brought from heaven when we were with him on the holy mount.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of its own solution.

promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant.

THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in which I excite your pure minds by remembrance,

knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires,

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,

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