- 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to themthat 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 yeshall 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 afaroff, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
- 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make yourcalling 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 inremembrance 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 stiryou 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 tohave these things always in remembrance.
- 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we madeknown 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 therecame 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 withhim in the holy mount.
- 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do wellthat 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: butholy 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 thereshall 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 theway of truth shall be evil spoken of.
- 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words makemerchandise 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 downto 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 notrailing accusation against them before the Lord.
- 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken anddestroyed, 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 atempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
- 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allurethrough 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 servantsof 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 worldthrough 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 ofrighteousness, 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, Thedog 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 whichI 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 Godthe 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 iswith 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 countslackness; 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 thewhich 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 mannerof 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, bediligent 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; evenas 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, bewarelest 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 SaviourJesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.