through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.

Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these things, although you have known them, and have been established in the present truth.

But I will also be diligent and especially that you may be able to make mention of these things after my departure.

but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity,

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.

All these things therefore being dissolved, what persons ought we to be in holy conduct and piety,

Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,

as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.

Do you therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] before, be on your guard not to be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall from your steadfastness,