Seeing that his Divine power hath given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness;

through which he hath given us exceedingly great and precious promises, that by these ye may become partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world through lust;

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Wherefore I shall be careful always to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth that is with you.

knowing that I must soon put off my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ declared to me.

Moreover I shall endeavor that at all times ye may be able, after my departure, to call these things to mind.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture cometh from private interpretation.

But there arose false prophets also among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will stealthily bring in destructive factions, even denying the Lord that bought them; bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

For if God spared not angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them over to chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

(for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing tormented his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds;)

having eyes full of an adulteress, and that cannot cease from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, children of a curse,

It hath happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his own vomit; and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles;

knowing this first, that there will come in the last days open scoffers following their own lusts,

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that of old by the word of God there were heavens, and an earth formed out of the water and by the water,

by means of which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished;

But forget not, beloved, this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not tardy concerning his promise, as some men count tardiness; but is longsuffering toward you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein will be burned up.

Seeing that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy conduct and godliness,

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, be diligent that ye may be found without spot and blameless before him in peace,

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which things are some that are hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.