So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.

For so the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind.

For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned.

In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

But these men, like irrational creatures, mere animals, born to be taken and destroyed, continually rail about matters of which they know nothing. In their corruption they will surely be destroyed,

Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that Day the heavens will vanish with a crash, the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all its works will be burned up.

while you look for and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat.