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

Moreover, I will endeavor that ye may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will privately bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

And many will follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of.

And through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein will be burned up.

Seeing then that all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy deportment and godliness,

Looking for and hasting to the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?