Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,

for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.

I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder,

For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”—

and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation,

promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness,