through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.

and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,

These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?

wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.