For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

Therefore I will always remind you of this, although you know it and are firmly grounded in the truth that you have.

For when he was so honored and glorified by God the Father and from the supreme glory there were borne to him such words as these: "This is my Son, my Beloved! He is my Chosen!"??18 we heard these words borne from heaven when we were with him on that sacred mountain.

You must understand this in the first place, that no prophecy in Scripture can be understood through one's own powers,

This is the second letter, dear friends, that I have now written to you, in the effort to arouse your unsullied minds

First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, going where their passions lead

But do not overlook this one fact, dear friends, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day.

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

Therefore, dear friends, while waiting for this, make every effort to be found by him unstained, irreproachable, and at peace.