and, even for this very reason, adding all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

And 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 was borne to Him from the Excellent Glory, "This is My Son, the Beloved, in Whom I took delight";

and this voice we heard borne from Heaven, when we were with Him in the holy mount.

knowing this, first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of one's own interpretation;

(for this righteous man, dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, was torturing his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds):

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what one is overcome by this he has become enslaved.

This, a second letter, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your sincere mind by way of remembrance;

Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers with scoffing, walking after their own desires,

For this escapes them willingly, that there were heavens of old, and an earth set together out of water, and through water, by the word of God:

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