As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,

through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is at hand, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

But I will also be diligent and especially that you may be able to make mention of these things after my departure.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of its own solution.

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment,

and delivered righteous Lot, vexed by the lewd conduct of the wicked;??8 for that righteous man living among them vexed his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their wicked deeds;??9 the Lord knows how to deliver the pious from trial, and to keep the wicked to the day of judgment to be punished,

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.

knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires,

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,

by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, was destroyed.

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

The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,