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THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OF
Peter
( Chapters 1-3 )
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.
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