On account of which, the greatest and most precious promises are freely given to us, that by these we might be made partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world, through lust.

knowing, that the putting off of this, my tabernacle, is soon to happen, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.

Therefore, I will carefully endeavor that you may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy brought by the will of man;

(for; -that righteous man, dwelling among them, by the sight and report of their unlawful deeds, tormented his righteous soul from day to day;)

They promise them liberty, whilst they themselves are slaves of corruption: for every one is enslaved by that which overcomes him.

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

But this willfully escapes them, that, by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth subsisting from the water, and by water:

by which the world that then was, being deluged with water, perished.

But this one thing, let it not escape you, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord does not delay his promise in the manner some account delaying; but he exercises long-suffering toward us, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should come to reformation.

However, as thief, the day of the Lord will come; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements burning shall be dissolved; and the earth, and the works that are upon it, shall be utterly burned.