Wherefore, I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

For I know that the putting off of this my tabernacle is near at hand, even as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture came from private interpretation:

and if he spared not the old world, but brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, and saved Noah, the eighth person, who was a preacher of righteousness;

whereas angels, who excel in might and in power, bring no railing accusation against them in the presence of the Lord.

This second letter I now write to you, beloved; in both of these I arouse your pure mind to remembrance,

But the heavens and the earth that now are, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men.

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

Do you, therefore, beloved, since you know these things be forehand, beware, lest, being led away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

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