even for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

For in this way the entrance will be richly furnished you into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Yea, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by reminding you;

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when such a voice as this was borne to him from the excellent glory: "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

And this voice we heard borne from heaven when we were with him in the holy mount.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture cometh from private interpretation.

This second letter, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by putting you in remembrance;

knowing this first, that there will come in the last days open scoffers following their own lusts,

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that of old by the word of God there were heavens, and an earth formed out of the water and by the water,

But forget not, beloved, this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.