Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall.

For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

But I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder,

And I will also be diligent to cause you to always have memory of these things after my departure.

For prophecy was not borne at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke being borne along by the Holy Spirit.

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

And many will follow their pernicious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be evil spoken of.

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust for a day of judgment, to be punished,

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;

promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.

Beloved, I now write this second letter to you, in which I stir up your pure mind by reminder

to remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by us, the apostles.

For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,

through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished.

But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same Word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

But, beloved, let not this one thing be hidden from you, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up.

Then, all these things being about to be dissolved, what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness,

Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent, spotless, and without blemish, to be found by Him in peace.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction).

But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.