But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,

But I account it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance,

For he received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight;

and this voice we heard uttered from heaven, being with him on the holy mountain.

knowing this first, that the scope of no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,

This, a second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in both which I stir up, in the way of putting you in remembrance, your pure mind,

knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,

For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,

But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.