Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the uprightness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as privileged as ours;

God bless you and give you perfect peace through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him.

Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.

You must understand this in the first place, that no prophecy in Scripture can be understood through one's own powers,

For if after men have escaped the corrupting influences of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome by them, their final condition is worse than their former one.

to remember the things foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

by which also that world was destroyed, through being flooded with water.