because His divine power has given us everything that is needful for life and piety, through our full knowledge of Him who through His glory and excellence has called us to Him.

It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.

because I know that the removal of my bodily tent is to be very soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

because you recognize this truth above all else, that no prophecy in Scripture is to be interpreted by one's own mind,

Many people will follow their immoral ways, and because of them the true Way will be abused,

The Lord is not slow about His promise, in the sense in which some think of slowness, but He is really dealing patiently with you, because He is not willing for any to perish but for all to have an opportunity to repent?