Do you on your part employ all your care in adding to your faith, fortitude: to fortitude, knowledge:

So, brothers, be diligent to make sure of your calling and election [i.e., of your status as being selected by God], for when you do, you will never stumble [and fall away from God].

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

I think it right, as long as I am in this earthly tent, to inspire you by reminding you,

For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we told you of the Coming in power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty.

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

And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness

especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,

Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,