And in harmony with this same thing also, add to your faith heroism; and to heroism, knowledge;

For in this way an entrance will be administered unto you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

But I consider it righteous, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by remembrance;

For having received from God the Father the honor and glory of such a voice having been borne to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

We, being with him in the holy mount, heard this voice borne from heaven.

know this in the first place, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

promising them liberty, they themselves being the slaves of corruption: for to whatsoever any one has been subordinated, to this he has become enslaved.

I indeed, beloved, write unto you this second epistle; in which I stir up your pure mind by remembrance:

knowing this first, that at the last days mockers will come forth in scoffing, walking according to their own lusts,

For they willingly forget this, that the heavens were in the olden time, and the earth standing out of the water and through the water, by the word of God;

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