Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;

and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation.

Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness: