And to this giving all diligence, add to your faith fortitude;

And I think it my duty, while I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by way of remembrance:

knowing that I must soon lay down this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

For He received from God the Father honor and glory when a voice came to Him from the magnificent glory, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

And this voice, from heaven we heard, when we were with Him in the holy mount.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation;

This second epistle, my beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your sincere mind in remembrance,

that ye may be mindful of the words formerly spoken by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: knowing this first,

For they are willingly ignorant of this, that by the Word of God the heavens were made of old, and the earth too from the water, and subsisting on 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.