Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness:

(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.)

Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:

For so shall an entrance be furnished richly to you in addition into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

And I deem just, in as far as I am in this tent, to arouse you by putting in mind;

And I shall also be earnest for you always to have, after my exit, this putting in mind to be done.

For prophecy was not once brought by the will of man: but holy men of God spake, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.

(And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.)

And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

And just Lot, being harassed by the licentiousness of the lawless for the turning back, he delivered:

But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;

These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.

Promising them liberty, they being servants of corruption: for by whom any is conquered, by him has he been made to serve.

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

Now this, dearly beloved, the second epistle I write to you; in which I awaken your pure mind by putting in remembrance:

To remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the command of us the sent of the Lord and Saviour:

For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God:

By which then the world, overflowed with water, perished:

And now the heavens and the earth, by the same word are stored up, being kept for fire to the day of judgment and of the perdition of irreligious men.

And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

And the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a loud noise, and the elements, suffering from excessive heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burned down.

Therefore all these being dissolved, of what race ought ye to be in holy turning round and devotion,

Expecting and seeking earnestly the presence of the day of God, during which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements going to be burned are melted away?

Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace.

You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.