(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.

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.