Now this same thing also, having applied all eagerness, furnish in your faith, virtue, and in virtue, knowledge,

But I think it right, inasmuch as I am in this tent, to arouse you in memory.

For having received from God the Father honor and glory from a voice of such kind brought to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, the beloved in whom I am well pleased.

And we heard this voice, which was brought out of heaven, being with him on the holy mountain.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture comes to pass of a personal interpretation.

promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

I write to you now this second letter, beloved, in which I arouse your sincere mind by a reminder,

Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from since the fathers became asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation.

For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,

But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.