For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.

promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness,