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 if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Therefore, brethren, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall;

Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.

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

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,

These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm; for them the blackest darkness has been reserved.

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy lives and godliness,

Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, spotless and blameless.

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.