On account of which, the greatest and most precious promises are freely given to us, that by these we might be made partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world, through lust.

for these things being in you, and abounding, make you to be neither slothful, nor unfruitful, in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But he who has not these things, is blind, shutting his eyes, having become forgetful of the purification of his old sins.

Wherefore, the rather, brethren, earnestly endeavor to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, you shall never fall;

Wherefore, I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, although you know, and are established in the present truth.

Therefore, I will carefully endeavor that you may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

But these, as natural, irrational animals, made for capture and destruction, speaking evil of matters which they do not understand, shall be utterly destroyed by their own corruptions;

receiving the due reward of unrighteousness. These delight to spend the day in luxurious festivity: they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceits when they feast with you;

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest; for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever:

Seeing, then, all these things shall be dissolved; -what sort of persons ought you to be, in holy behavior and godliness,

Wherefore, beloved, expecting these things, diligently endeavor to be found of him spotless, and irreproachable, in peace.

As, indeed, in all his epistles, speaking in them concerning these things: in which there are some things hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

Therefore, beloved, foreknowing these things, be on your guard; lest being also carried away by the deceit of the lawless, you fall from your own steadfastness.