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:

For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

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 not having followed ingeniously contrived fictions, we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been spectators of his majesty.

For having received from God the Father honour and glory, and such a voice brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.

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

For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;

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

(For the just one in seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, from day to day tried the just soul with lawless works;)

The Lord knows to deliver the religious out of temptation, and to keep the unjust restrained for the day of judgment;

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;

And he had reprehension for his own iniquity: the dumb ass speaking in man's voice impeded the insanity of the prophet.

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

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

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.

For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them.

Knowing this first, that in the last of the days shall mockers come for deceiving, going according to their own eager desires,

And saying, Where is the solemn promise of his presence? for from the time the fathers were set to sleep, so continue all things from the beginning of creation.

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:

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.

The Lord puts not off the solemn promise, as some deem slowness; but is lonsuffering to us, not willing any to perish, but all should have room for repentance.

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?