through which precious and greatest promises have been given unto us; that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For these things, being in you and overflowing, render you neither barren nor unfruitful in the perfect knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for he unto whom these things are not present is blind, not seeing afar off, having received the forgetfulness of his purgation from his old sins.

Therefore, brethren, be the more diligent to make your calling and election sure: for doing these things you can never fall.

Therefore I will be about to always remind you concerning these things, even though knowing them, and being established in the present truth.

And I will endeavor to have each one of you after my departure make mention of these things.

But these, like irrational animals having been born naturally for capture and destruction, blaspheming those things in which they are ignorant; in their own corruption they will indeed corrupt themselves;

These are fountains without water, and mists driven away by the storm, for which the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.

Then all these things being dissolved, what kind of people does it behoove you to be in holy deportment and godliness,

Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless unto him in peace:

as also in all his epistles, speaking in the same concerning these things; in which there are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unestablished wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.