Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

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

We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;

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

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,