For we were not following cunningly devised fables, when we told you of the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his Majesty.

and this voice we ourselves heard, borne to us out of heaven, when we were with him on the holy hill.

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles.

For they willingly ignore the fact that there were heaven, from of old, and an earth formed out of water and through water, by the word of God;