For this very reason giving all diligence, add to your faith courage,

Yea I think it right, so long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by reminding you:

For he received honour and glory from God the Father, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight.

And we being with him in the holy mountain, heard this voice coming from heaven:

Knowing this before that no scripture prophecy is of any private interpretation.

This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,

That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: Knowing this first,

For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the word of God of old the heavens were and the earth, standing out of the water and in the water,

But, beloved, be not ye ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.