Now this same thing also, having applied all eagerness, furnish in your faith, virtue, and in virtue, knowledge,

Knowing that the putting off of my tent is imminent, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.

And also I will endeavor for you to always have, after my departure, the memory of these things to apply.

But FALSE prophets also developed among the people, as FALSE teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

And consider the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him,

as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.