But I will also be diligent and especially that you may be able to make mention of these things after my departure.

For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known to you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.

For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but moved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God,

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment,

and spared not the old world, but preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly,

but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,

but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity,

but had a rebuke of his transgression; the dumb ass, speaking with a man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.

But the present heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being kept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men.

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

The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed.

But we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.