Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know it beforehand: Beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own steadfastness;

To make

But the sure ground of God remaineth, and hath this seal: the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.

Yea, and we desire that every one of you show the same diligence, to the establishing of hope, even unto the end:

for thereby we know that we be of the truth, and so shall we certify our hearts in his sight.

Election

For we know well that all things work for the best unto them that love God, which also are called of purpose.

without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, for because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctifying of the spirit; And through believing the truth:

Elect by the foreknowledge of God the father, through the sanctifying of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace be with you, and peace be multiplied.

General references

But see that ye keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his witnesses and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,

Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.