The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”

First of all, you should know this: No prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation,

because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.

knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,

For in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed.

So we have the prophetic word strongly confirmed. You will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

I consider it right, as long as I am in this bodily tent, to wake you up with a reminder,

Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has also shown me.

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

Simeon Peter, a slave and an apostle of Jesus Christ:

To those who have obtained a faith of equal privilege with ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

For we did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; instead, we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,

But based on His promise, we wait for the new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will dwell.

For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, a voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory:

This is My beloved Son.
I take delight in Him!

And I will also make every effort that you may be able to recall these things at any time after my departure.

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

And we heard this voice when it came from heaven while we were with Him on the holy mountain.

Also, regard the patience of our Lord as an opportunity for salvation, just as our dear brother Paul has written to you according to the wisdom given to him.

Therefore, brothers, make every effort to confirm your calling and election, because if you do these things you will never stumble.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

But by the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

Dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written to you; in both letters, I want to develop a genuine understanding with a reminder,

(for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

as you wait for and earnestly desire the coming of the day of God. The heavens will be on fire and be dissolved because of it, and the elements will melt with the heat.

and if He rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral

But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord.

They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness

They have eyes full of adultery and are always looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!

suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you.

so that you can remember the words previously spoken by the holy prophets and the command of our Lord and Savior given through your apostles.

Many will follow their unrestrained ways, and the way of truth will be blasphemed because of them.

but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality.

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, it is clear what sort of people you should be in holy conduct and godliness

They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God.

and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you have.

and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;

Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stability.

They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found at peace with Him without spot or blemish.

especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority.

Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;

Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded.