Yes, and for this very reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge,

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God's Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.

But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this 'tent,' to rouse you by awakening memories of the past;

So on every possible occasion I will also do my best to enable you to recall these things after my departure.

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

So, my dearly loved ones, while you are waiting for these things [to happen], do your best to be found at peace with God, pure and blameless in His sight.