so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you by putting you in remembrance.

For I know that the putting off of this my tabernacle is near at hand, even as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came to him from the magnificent glory a voice, such as this: This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight.

And this voice, which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the holy mount;

and we have the prophetic word better established. You do well to attend to this, as to a lamp that shines in a dark place, till the day dawn, and the morning star arise in your hearts;

knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture came from private interpretation:

This second letter I now write to you, beloved; in both of these I arouse your pure mind to remembrance,

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

For they are willingly ignorant of this, that by the word of God, the heavens of old had their being as also the earth consisting of water and subsisting by water,

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.