2 Peter 1:12-21 - Salvation Based On The Word Of God

¹² Hence I mean to keep on reminding you of this, although you are aware of it and are fixed in the Truth as it is; ¹³ so long as I am in this tent, I deem it proper to stir you up by way of reminder, ¹⁴ since I know my tent must be folded up very soon ??as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me. ¹⁵ Yes, and I will see to it that even when I am gone, you will keep this constantly in mind.

¹⁶ For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty, ¹⁷ when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight."

¹⁸ That voice borne from heaven we heard, we who were beside him on the sacred hill, ¹⁹ and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts ??20 understanding this, at the outset, that no prophetic scripture allows a man to interpret it by himself; ²¹ for prophecy never came by human impulse, it was when carried away by the holy Spirit that the holy men of God spoke.