2 Peter 1:12-21 - Salvation Based On The Word Of God
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent continually to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth. 13 Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this frail tabernacle, to rouse up your attention by reminding you: 14 knowing that the deposition of this frail tabernacle of mine is hastily approaching, as our Lord Jesus Christ hath made evident to me. 15 I will endeavour then that even after my decease, ye may always have wherewith to preserve the remembrance of these things.
16 For we have not followed artfully devised fables, when we made known to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when such a voice was sent forth to him from the transcendently magnificent glory, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
18 And this voice we heard coming out of heaven, when we were with him on the holy mountain. 19 And we hold the prophetic word more confirmed, to which ye do well to attend, as to a lamp shining in a dark passage, until the day dawn, and the morning-star arise upon your hearts. 20 Knowing this in the first place, that all scriptural prophecy is not from any man's own suggestions. 21 For prophecy in old time came not by the will of man: but the holy men of God spake under the impulse of the Holy Ghost.