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1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those having obtained a faith equally precious with ours, through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3 Accordingly, His divine power has given us all things toward life and godliness, through the knowledge of the One having called us by His own glory and excellence, 4 through which He has given to us the precious and magnificent promises, so that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the decay in the world in desire. 5 Now also for this very reason, having brought in all earnestness, supplement into your faith virtue, and into virtue knowledge, 6 and into knowledge self-control, and into self-control endurance, and into endurance godliness, 7 and into godliness brotherly affection, and into brotherly affection love. 8 For these things being in you and abounding, make you neither idle nor unfruitful as to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For in whomever these things are not present, he is blind, being short sighted, having received forgetfulness of the purification from his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be diligent, rather, to make your calling and election sure. For practicing these things, never at any time shall you stumble. 11 For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you. 12 Therefore I will be ready always to remind you concerning these things, though knowing them and having been strengthened in the truth being present in you. 13 Now I esteem it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance, 14 knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is impending, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. 15 And I will be diligent also for you to have at every time after my departure these things, to make a lasting remembrance. 16 For we have not made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ having followed out cleverly devised fables, but having been eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For having received honor and glory from God the Father, a voice such as follows was brought to Him by the Majestic Glory: "This is My Son, My beloved, in whom I have found delight." 18 And we heard this voice having been brought from heaven, being with Him in the holy mountain. 19 And we have the more certain prophetic word, to which you do well taking heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until this day shall have dawned and the morning star shall have arisen in your hearts, 20 knowing this first, that any prophecy of Scripture is not of its own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy at any time was brought by the will of man, but men spoke from God, being carried by the Holy Spirit. 2 But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will stealthily introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master having bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow after their sensuality, through whom the way of the truth will be maligned. 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words, for whom the judgment of long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber. 4 For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but having cast them down to Tartarus, in chains of gloomy darkness, delivered them, being kept for judgment; 5 and He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, one of eight, having brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 and He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, having reduced them to ashes, having set an example of what is coming on the ungodly; 7 and He rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct in sensuality of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man dwelling, among them, day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul, through seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)-- 9 then the Lord knows to deliver the devout out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous being punished unto the day of judgment, 10 and especially those walking after the flesh in the passion of defilement and despising authority. Bold, self-willed, they do not tremble blaspheming glorious ones, 11 whereas angels, being greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a reviling judgment before the Lord. 12 But these, like irrational animals, having been born as creatures of instinct for capture and destruction, blaspheming in what they are ignorant of, in their destruction also will be destroyed, 13 suffering wrong as the wage of unrighteousness; esteeming carousal in daytime as pleasure; blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, feasting with you; 14 having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing from sin; enticing unestablished souls; having a heart having been exercised in craving--children of a curse! 15 Having forsaken the straight way, they have gone astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness. 16 But he had reproof for his own transgression by a mute donkey; having spoken in a man's voice, it restrained the madness of the prophet. 17 These are springs without water and mists being driven by storm, for whom gloom of darkness has been reserved. 18 For speaking arrogant words of vanity, they entice to sensuality with the passions of the flesh those barely escaping from those living in error, 19 promising them freedom, themselves being slaves of corruption. For by what anyone has been subdued, by that also he is enslaved. 20 For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now again having been entangled in these they are subdued, the last state has become worse to them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to have turned from the holy commandment having been delivered to them. 22 The thing true of the proverb has happened to them: "A dog having returned to its own vomit," and, "A sow having washed, to her rolling place in the mire." 3 Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you, in both of which I am stirring up your pure mind in putting you in remembrance 2 to be mindful of the words having been spoken beforehand by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 3 first knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own evil desires, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For from the time that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." 5 For this is concealed from them willingly, that heavens existed long ago and the earth, having been composed out of water and through water, by the word of God, 6 through which the world at that time perished, having been deluged with water. 7 But by the same word now the heavens and the earth exist, having been stored up for fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. 8 But beloved, do not let this one thing be hidden from you, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord does not delay the promise, as some esteem slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but all to come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and elements will be dissolved, burning with heat, and the earth and the works in it will not be found. 11 All these things being dissolved in this way, what kind ought you to be? In holy conduct and godliness, 12 expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens will be dissolved, being set on fire, and the elements are melting, burning with heat. 13 But according to His promise, we are awaiting new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. 14 Therefore, beloved, expecting these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and without blemish. 15 And esteem the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom having been given to him, 16 as also in all the letters, speaking in them concerning these things, among which some things are difficult to be understood, which the ignorant and unestablished distort to their own destruction, as also the other Scriptures. 17 Therefore beloved, knowing this beforehand, you beware, lest you should fall from the own steadfastness, having been led away by the error of the lawless. 18 But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.