Wherefore, I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, although you know, and are established in the present truth.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy brought by the will of man;

and did not spare the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth, a proclaimer of righteousness, when he brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Now, if, having fled away from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and being again entangled, they are overcome by them; their last condition is worse than the first.

Beloved, this second epistle I now write to you, in which epistles I stir up your sincere mind to remembrance:

But we, according to his promise, expect new heavens, and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

But grow in favor, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.