For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge,

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

I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with you.

So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

For he did receive honor and glory from God the Father, when there was borne such a voice to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight;

and this voice we ourselves heard, borne to us out of heaven, when we were with him on the holy hill.

And so we possess the word of prophecy made yet more sure. Unto this you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

But first be assured of this??hat no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

This is now my second letter to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your pure minds by putting you in remembrance.

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

Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.