2 Peter
The Second Epistle of Peter
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2Pet.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:
[2] Grace and peace be
multiplied unto you through the knowledge 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
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
[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.
[5] And
beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to
virtue knowledge;
[6] And to knowledge temperance; and to
temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
[7] And to
godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
[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.
[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.
[10] Wherefore the rather, brethren,
give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do
these things, ye shall never fall:
[11] For so an entrance
shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
[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.
[13]
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you
up by putting you in remembrance;
[14] Knowing that shortly
I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath
shewed me.
[15] Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be
able after my decease to have these things always in
remembrance.
[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.
[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.
[18] And this voice which came
from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
[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:
[20]
Knowing this first, 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.
2Pet.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] And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.
[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.
[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;
[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;
[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;
[7] And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked:
[8] (For that righteous man
dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul
from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
[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:
[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.
[11]
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not
railing accusation against them before the Lord.
[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;
[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;
[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:
[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;
[16] But was rebuked for his
iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness
of the prophet.
[17] These are wells without water, clouds
that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is
reserved for ever.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
2Pet.3
[1]
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I
stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
[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] Knowing this first, that there shall come in
the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
[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.
[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:
[6] Whereby the
world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[11] Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
conversation and godliness,
[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?
[13] Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look
for new heavens and a new earth, 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 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;
[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.
[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.
[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.