By these he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and become partakers of the divine nature.

For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

since I know that the putting aside of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

And I will see to it that after my departure you will be able at any time to call these things to mind.

First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

They have eyes full of adultery, that never cease from sin; they entice unstable souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.

This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder;

that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles.

First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days, with scoffing, following their own lusts

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and by means of water,

through which the world at that time was destroyed, being deluged with water.

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your own steadfastness.