Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth,

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

For prophecy never came by the will of man, but the holy men of God spake being moved by the Holy Ghost.

But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall likewise be false teachers among you, who will privily bring in destructive 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 will they with feigned speeches make merchandize of you, whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

that there will come scoffers in the last days,

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