(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.)

Knowing that the laying aside of my tent is swift; as also our Lord Jesus Christ manifested to me.

Knowing this first, that every prophecy of the writing is not of private solution.

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them.

And that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog having turned back to his own vomit; and the sow having been washed to the rolling of the mire.

Knowing this first, that in the last of the days shall mockers come for deceiving, going according to their own eager desires,

For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God:

And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.