For if these things are in your possession, and abounding, they will render you neither inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

but an entrance will thus be richly afforded you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Wherefore I will not be negligent continually to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth.

I will endeavour then that even after my decease, ye may always have wherewith to preserve the remembrance of these things.

For prophecy in old time came not by the will of man: but the holy men of God spake under the impulse of the Holy Ghost.

BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

And many will go out of the way after their fatal errors; by means of whom the way of truth will be injuriously reviled.

And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.

But these men, as the naturally irrational brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of the things of which they are ignorant, will perish by their own corruption;

knowing this principally, that in the last of the days there will come scoffers, walking after their own lewd passions,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief by night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a rushing noise, and the first principles of matter in flames dissolve, and the earth and all the works upon it be burnt up.