For this very reason, you must make every effort to supplement your faith with moral character, your moral character with knowledge,

So then, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election certain, for if you keep on doing this you will never fail.

For in this way you will be generously granted entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah.

Yet I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I am living in this bodily tent,

For he received honor and glory from God the Father when these words from the Majestic Glory were spoken about him: "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him."

We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

First of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

Dear friends, this is now the second of two letters I am writing to you, in which I have been trying to stimulate your pure minds by reminding you

First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us

Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, think of the kind of holy and godly people you ought to be

So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to have the Lord find you at peace and without spot or fault.

He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, leading to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.