1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them


that have obtained like precious faith with us through the


righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 1:2 Grace and peace


be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our


Lord, 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things


that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him


that hath called us to glory and virtue: 1:4 Whereby are given unto us


exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be


partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is


in the world through lust.





1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;


and to virtue knowledge; 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to


temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 1:7 And to godliness


brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.





1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye


shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord


Jesus Christ.





1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar


off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.





1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your


calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never


fall: 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly


into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.





1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in


remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established


in the present truth.





1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir


you up by putting you in remembrance; 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must


put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed


me.





1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to


have these things always in remembrance.





1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made


known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were


eyewitnesses of his majesty.





1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there


came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved


Son, in whom I am well pleased.





1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with


him in the holy mount.





1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well


that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until


the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 1:20 Knowing this


first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private


interpretation.





1:21 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.





2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there


shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable


heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon


themselves swift destruction.





2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the


way of truth shall be evil spoken of.





2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make


merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,


and their damnation slumbereth not.





2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down


to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved


unto judgment; 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the


eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon


the world of the ungodly; 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and


Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an


ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 2:7 And delivered


just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 2:8 (For


that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed


his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 2:9 The


Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to


reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 2:10 But


chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and


despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not


afraid to speak evil of dignities.





2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not


railing accusation against them before the Lord.





2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and


destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and


shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 2:13 And shall receive


the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot


in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves


with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 2:14 Having eyes


full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable


souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed


children: 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,


following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of


unrighteousness; 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass


speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.





2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a


tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.





2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure


through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that


were clean escaped from them who live in error.





2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants


of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he


brought in bondage.





2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world


through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are


again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with


them than the beginning.





2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of


righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy


commandment delivered unto them.





2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The


dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to


her wallowing in the mire.





3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which


I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 3:2 That ye may be


mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets,


and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3:3


Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,


walking after their own lusts, 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of


his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as


they were from the beginning of the creation.





3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God


the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and


in the water: 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed


with water, perished: 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are


now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against


the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.





3:8 But, 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.





3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count


slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any


should perish, but that all should come to repentance.





3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the


which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements


shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are


therein shall be burned up.





3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner


of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 3:12


Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the


heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt


with fervent heat?  3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise,


look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.





3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be


diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and


blameless.





3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even


as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto


him hath written unto you; 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking


in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be


understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they


do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.





3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware


lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from


your own stedfastness.





3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour


Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.