According as his godly power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us by virtue and glory:

For we followed not deceitful fables when we opened unto you the power, and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but with our eyes we saw his majesty:

when the angels, which are greater both in power and might, receive not of the Lord railing judgment against them.

and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness:

This is the second epistle that I now write unto you, my dearly beloved, wherewith I stir up and warn your pure minds,