I shall, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the Truth that you now hold.

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.

There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned.

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,

It would, indeed, have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy Command delivered to them.