whereby superlatively great and precious promises are freely given to us: that by these ye might become partakers of a divine nature, having fled far away from the corruption that is in the world through inordinate concupiscence.??5 And for this very purpose employing the greatest diligence, lead up in the train of your faith courage; and with courage intelligence;

but righteous Lot, afflicted grievously with the infamously impure conduct of those lawless men, he plucked out:

knowing this principally, that in the last of the days there will come scoffers, walking after their own lewd passions,

But let not this particular be concealed from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.