But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge;

But I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder,

For He received honor and glory from God the Father, when was borne to Him a voice from the excellent glory, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

And we heard this voice being borne from Heaven, being with Him in the holy mountain.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of its own private interpretation.

promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.

Beloved, I now write this second letter to you, in which I stir up your pure mind by reminder

First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts

For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,

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