For if these things be among you, and are plenteous, they will make you that ye neither shall be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of the our Lord Jesus Christ.

But he that lacketh these things is blind and gropeth for the way with his hand, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

I will enforce, therefore, that on every side ye might have wherewith to stir up the remembrance of these things after my departing.

But these, as brute beasts, naturally made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of that they know not, and shall perish through their own destruction,

These are wells without water, and clouds carried about of a tempest, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

If all these things shall perish, what manner persons ought ye to be in holy conversation, and godliness: