As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,

I think it right as long as I am in this tabernacle, to excite you by remembrance,

knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is at hand, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

but had a rebuke of his transgression; the dumb ass, speaking with a man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.

But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed.

and consider the long-suffering of the Lord our salvation; as also our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him wrote to you,

as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.