Chapters:
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2
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1 Simon Peter a servant and
an Apostle of Jesus Christ,
to you which have obtained
like precious faith with us
by the righteousness of our
God and Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be
multiplied to you, through
the acknowledging of God,
and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine
power hath given unto us all
things that pertain
unto life and godliness,
through the acknowledging of
him that hath called us unto
glory and virtue.
4 Whereby most great and
precious promises are given
unto us, that by them ye
should be partakers of the
divine nature, in that ye
flee the corruption, which
is in the world through
lust.
5 Therefore give even all
diligence thereunto: join
moreover virtue with your
faith: and with virtue,
knowledge:
6 And with knowledge,
temperance: and with
temperance, patience: and
with patience, godliness:
7 And with godliness,
brotherly kindness: and with
brotherly kindness, love.
8 For if these things be
among you, and abound, they
will make you that ye
neither shall be idle, nor
unfruitful in the
acknowledging of our Lord
Jesus Christ:
9 For he that hath not these
things, is blind, and can
not see far off, and hath
forgotten that he was purged
from his old sins.
10 Wherefore, brethren, give
rather diligence to make
your calling and election
sure: for if ye do these
things, ye shall never fall.
11 For by this means an
entering shall be ministered
unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our
Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.
12 Wherefore, I will not be
negligent to put you always
in remembrance of these
things, though that ye have
knowledge, and be stablished
in the present trueth.
13 For I think it meet as
long as I am in this
tabernacle, to stir you up
by putting you in
remembrance,
14 Seeing I know that the
time is at hand that I must
lay down this my tabernacle,
even as our Lord Jesus
Christ hath shewed me.
15 I will endeavor therefore
always, that ye also may be
able to have remembrance of
these things after my
departing.
16 For we followed not
deceivable fables when we
opened unto you the power,
and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but with our eyes we
saw his majesty:
17 For he received of God
the Father honor and glory,
when there came such a voice
to him from that excellent
glory, This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well
pleased.
18 And this voice we heard
when it came from heaven,
being with him in the Holy
mount.
19 We have also a most sure
worde of the Prophets, to
the which ye do well that ye
take heed, as unto a light
that shineth in a dark
place, until the day dawn,
and the daystar arise in
your hearts.
20 So that ye first know
this, that no prophecy of
the Scripture is of any
private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not
in old time by the will of
man: but holy men of God
spake as they were moved by
the holy Ghost.
1 But there were false
prophets also among the
people, even as there shall
be false teachers among you:
which privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even
denying the Lord, that hath
bought them, and bring upon
themselves swift damnation.
2 And many shall follow
their destructions, by whom
the way of truth shall be
evil spoken of,
3 And through covetousness
shall they with feigned
words make merchandise of
you, whose condemnation long
since resteth not, and their
destruction slumbereth not.
4 For if God spared not the
Angels that had sinned, but
cast them down into hell,
and delivered them into
chains of darkness, to be
kept unto damnation:
5 Neither hath spared the
old world, but saved Noe the
eight person a
preacher of righteousness,
and brought in the flood
upon the world of the
ungodly,
6 And turned the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrh into
ashes, condemned them and
overthrew them, and made
them an ensample unto them
that after should live
ungodly,
7 And delivered just Loth
vexed with the uncleanly
conversation of the wicked:
8 (For he being righteous,
and dwelling among them, in
seeing and hearing, vexed
his righteous soul from day
to day with their unlawful
deedes.)
9 The Lord knoweth to
deliver the godly out of
temptation, and to reserve
the unjust unto the day of
judgment under punishment.
10 And chiefly them that
walk after the flesh, in the
lust of uncleanness, and
despise government, which
are bold, and stand in
their own conceit, and fear
not to speak evil of them
that are in dignity.
11 Whereas the Angels which
are greater both in power
and might, give not railing
judgment against them before
the Lord.
12 But these, as natural
brute beasts, led with
sensuality and made to be
taken, and destroyed, speak
evil of those things which
they know not, and shall
perish through their own
corruption,
13 And shall receive the
wages of unrighteousness, as
they which count it pleasure
daily to live deliciously.
Spots they are and
blots, delighting themselves
in their deceivings, in
feasting with you,
14 Having eyes full of
adultery, and that can not
cease to sin, beguiling
unstable souls: they have
hearts exercised with
covetousness, they are
the children of curse:
15 Which forsaking the right
way, have gone astray,
following the way of Balaam,
the son of Bosor,
which loved the wages of
unrighteousness.
16 But he was rebuked for
his iniquity: for the
dumb beast speaking with
man's voice, forbade the
foolishness of the Prophet.
17 These are wells without
water, and clouds
carried about with a
tempest, to whom the black
darkness is reserved for
ever.
18 For in speaking swelling
words of vanity, they
beguile with wantonness
through the lusts of the
flesh them that were clean
escaped from them which are
wrapped in error,
19 Promising unto them
liberty, and are themselves
the servants of corruption:
for of whomsoever a man is
overcome, even unto the same
is he in bondage.
20 For if they, after they
have escaped from the
filthiness of the world,
through the acknowledging of
the Lord, and of the Savior
Jesus Christ, are yet
tangled again therein, and
overcome, the latter end is
worse with them then the
beginning.
21 For it had been better
for them, not to have
acknowledged the way of
righteousness, then after
they have acknowledged it,
to turn from the holy
commandment given unto them.
22 But it is come unto them,
according to the true
Proverb, The dog is returned
to his own vomit: and, The
sow that was washed, to the
wallowing in the mire.
1 This second Epistle I now
write unto you, beloved,
wherewith I stir up, and
warn your pure minds,
2 To call to remembrance the
words, which were told
before of the holy Prophets,
and also the commandment of
us the Apostles of the Lord
and Savior.
3 This first understand,
that there shall come in the
last days, mockers, which
will walk after their lusts,
4 And say, Where is the
promise of his coming? for
since the fathers died, all
things continue alike from
the beginning of the
creation.
5 For this they willingly
know not, that the heavens
were of old, and the earth
that was of the water and by
the water, by the word of
God.
6 Wherefore the world that
then was, perished,
overflowed with the water.
7 But the heavens and earth,
which are now, are kept by
the same word in store, and
reserved unto fire against
the day of condemnation, and
of the destruction of
ungodly men.
8 Dearly beloved, be not
ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the
Lord, as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one
day.
9 The Lord of that promise
is not slack (as some men
count slackness) but is
patient toward us, and would
have no man to perish, but
would all men to come to
repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord
will come as a thief in the
night, in the which the
heavens shall pass away with
a noise, and the elements
shall melt with heat, and
the earth with the works
that are therein, shall be
burnt up.
11 Seeing therefore that all
these things must be
dissolved, what manner
persons ought ye to be in
holy conversation and
godliness,
12 Looking for, and hasting
unto the coming of that day
of God, by the which the
heavens being on fire, shall
be dissolved, and the
elements shall melt with
heat?
13 But we look for new
heavens, and a new earth,
according to his promise,
wherein dwelleth
righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved,
seeing that ye look for such
things, be diligent that ye
may be found of him in
peace, without spot and
blameless.
15 And suppose that the long
suffering of our Lord is
salvation, even as our
beloved brother Paul
according to the wisdom
given unto him wrote to you,
16 As one, that in all
his Epistles speaketh of
these things: among the
which some things are hard
to be understand, which they
that are unlearned and
unstable, wrest, as they
do also other Scriptures
unto their own destruction.
17 Ye therefore beloved,
seeing ye know these things
before, beware, lest ye be
also plucked away with the
error of the wicked, and
fall from your own
steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in
the knowledge of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ: to
him be glory both now
and for evermore. Amen. |
