For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;

Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.

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

But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black 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 conduct and godliness,

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

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.