Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth,

Knowing this before that no scripture prophecy is of any private interpretation.

And through covetousness will they with feigned speeches make merchandize of you, whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

to be reserved to judgment, And spared not the old world, (but he saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness) bringing a flood on the world of the ungodly;

This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,

But the heavens and the earth that are now, are by his word kept in store reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Nevertheless we look for new heavens and a new earth, according to his promise, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity! Amen.