Yea, and by this means an entering-in shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

Notwithstanding, I think it mete, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

forasmuch as I am sure how that the time is at hand that I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.

Even then, verily, when he received of God the father honour and glory, and when there came such a voice to him from that excellent glory. "This is my dear beloved son, in whom I have delight" -

This voice we heard when it came from heaven, being with him in the holy mount.

So that ye first know this: That no prophecy in the scripture hath any private interpretation.

This is the second epistle that I now write unto you, my dearly beloved, wherewith I stir up and warn your pure minds,

This first understand: that there shall come in the last days mockers, which will walk after their own lusts

This they know not - and that willingly: how that the heavens a great while ago were, and the earth that was in the water appeared up out of the water by the word of God:

Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.