And for this very reason, indeed, giving all diligence, add to your faith, courage; and to courage, knowledge;

Yes, I think it fit, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up, by putting you in remembrance;

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

for when he received from God the Father honor and glory, a vice to this effect came to him from the magnificent glory, "This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I delight."

And this voice we heard come from heaven, being with him on the holy mountain:

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

Beloved, this second epistle I now write to you, in which epistles I stir up your sincere mind to remembrance:

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:

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.