by which are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For if these be in you and abound, they will not suffer you to be idle, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But he, that hath not these, is blind, or short-sighted, having forgot his baptismal purification from his former sins.

Wherefore, my brethren, be the more diligent thus to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things ye shall never fall.

Wherefore I will not neglect to put you always in mind of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth.

And I will endeavour that after my departure also ye may always be able to call these things to remembrance.

But these men, like brute beasts naturally produced to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things which they do not understand, shall perish by their own corruption; receiving the reward of their unrighteousness:

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom thick darkness is reserved for ever.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye expect these things, give diligence to be found of Him in peace, spotless and blameless;

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

Do ye therefore, beloved, as ye know these things before, take heed least being seduced together with them by the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness.