Therefore rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:

And many shall follow their shameful ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.