And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

Indeed, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shown me.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

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

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

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

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

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