PETER II 1
1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Ihsou Christ, to those who have obtained equal faith with us through the righteousness of our God and Savior Ihsou Christ: 2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Ihsou our Lord; 3 as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue; 4 by whom he has given us excellent and noble callings, that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And this is the study of all things, giving attention to all things, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, 6 and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control patience, and to patience godliness, 7 and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if you have these things, and abound, they make you neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Ihsou Christ. 9 For whoever does not have these things is blind and short-sighted, having forgotten the cleansing from his sins of old. 10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall. 11 For so an entrance will be supplied to you richly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Ihsou Christ. 12 Therefore I will not be negligent in putting you always in remembrance of these things, both knowing them and being established in the present truth. 13 But it is right for me, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by remembrance, 14 seeing that the putting off of my tabernacle is secret, as our Lord Ihsou Christ hath shewed me. 15 But I will study and have you with me every time I go out, that I may have remembrance of these things. 16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Ihsou Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came to him such a voice from the excellent glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” 18 And this voice we heard borne from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. 19 And we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and a daystar rises in your hearts, 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy is of any private interpretation. 21 For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

PETER II 2
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there were false teachers among you, who will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their perdition, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed, 3 and with their deceitful words they will exploit you for gain; whose judgment is long-suffering, and whose destruction does not slumber. 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but delivered them into hell, reserved for judgment: 5 And spared not the ancient world, but saved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly: 6 And condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto them that should live ungodly after this manner: 7 And delivered righteous Lot, being grieved by the wickedness of the wicked in their lust: 8 For the righteous man, seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, day by day perverteth his righteous soul in his ungodly works. tormented. 9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, but to reserve the unjust for the day of judgment to be punished. 10 But those who walk after the flesh in the lust of impurity and despise authority. Bold, self-assured, not afraid of glory, blaspheming. 11 Where angels, being greater in power and might, do not bring against them a blasphemous judgment from the Lord. 12 But these, like brute beasts, born naturally to be brutish and corruptible, in which they are ignorant, blasphemers, and in their corruption they are corrupted, 13 Receiving the wages of unrighteousness, living in pleasure in the daytime, moles and molehills, feasting on their own deceits, while they are with you, 14 Having eyes as eyes of adultery, and never ceasing in sin, luring unsuspecting souls, having a heart trained in covetousness, cursed children; 15 Having left the straight path, they have gone astray, following the way of Balaam of Bosor, who received a reward of He loved injustice, 16 but he was a judge of his own lawlessness; a mute ass, speaking in a human voice, he restrained the madness of the prophet. 17 These are waterless springs, clouds that are covered with a tempest, over whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever. 18 For they are puffed up with vain things, tempting the flesh in its lusts with defilements, avoiding those who are turned back in error, 19 promising them freedom, they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whomever is overcome, to the same is he also enslaved. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Ihsou Christ, they are again entangled in sin, the last things are worse for them than the first. 21 For it was fitting for them, not knowing the way of righteousness, but knowing, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 And the true proverb has happened to them, “You will return to the same place you were washed in; and she who was washed in the mire has been thrown into the mire.”

PETER II 3
1 This, beloved, I am writing you a second letter, in which I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you, 2 that you are to remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Savior apostles, 3 knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own desires, 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 they are ignorant of this, that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and through water by the word of God, 6 by which the world that then was, being deluged 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 I do not want you to be ignorant of this, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people count slowness, 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 which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein will be burned up. 11 Since all these things are to be dissolved, consider how you ought to live in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, through which the heavens will be dissolved on fire and the elements will melt with fervent heat. 13 But we look for new heavens and a new earth, according to his word, in which righteousness dwells. 14 Therefore, beloved, since you are looking for these things, be diligent to be found by him spotless and unblemished and in peace. 15 And consider the longsuffering of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17 Therefore, beloved, be on your guard lest, being carried away with the error of the ungodly, you also fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Ihsou Christ: to him be glory, both now and for ever. Amen.