knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of its own solution.

and spared not the old world, but preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly,

THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in which I excite your pure minds by remembrance,

But we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.