As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,

through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,

but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity,

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.

THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in which I excite your pure minds by remembrance,

by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, was destroyed.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed.

expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being burnt up will be dissolved and the elements be melted with heat.

But we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.