For if these things be among you, and are plenteous, they will make you that ye neither shall be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of the our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of such things, though that ye know them yourselves and be also established in the present truth.

I will enforce, therefore, that on every side ye might have wherewith to stir up the remembrance of these things after my departing.

For the scripture came never by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy ghost.

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

Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which day, the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall burn.