Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;

For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

Many people will follow their immoral ways, and they will cause the true way to be maligned.

since you are awaiting and hastening the coming of the day of God, which will cause the heavens to blaze and dissolve and the heavenly bodies to burn up and melt away!