By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

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

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

Therefore, brothers, make every effort to confirm your calling and election, because if you do these things you will never stumble.

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

And I will also make every effort that you may be able to recall these things at any time after my departure.

But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded.

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, it is clear what sort of people you should be in holy conduct and godliness

Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found at peace with Him without spot or blemish.

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.