\NormalFont\ShortTitle{2 Peter}
{\MTB THE SECOND EPISTLE OF
\par }{\MT PETER

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Simon
Peter,
a
servant
and apostle
of
Jesus
Christ,
to
them
that
have
obtained
a
like
precious
faith
with
us
in
the
righteousness
of
our
God
and
{\ADD{
the}}
Saviour
Jesus
Christ:
\VS{2}Grace
to
you
and
peace
be
multiplied
in
the
knowledge
of
God
and
of
Jesus
our
Lord;
\VS{3}seeing
that
his
divine
power
hath
granted
unto
us
all
things
that
pertain
unto
life
and
godliness,
through
the
knowledge
of
him
that
called
us
by
his
own
glory
and
virtue;
\VS{4}whereby
he
hath
granted
unto
us
his
precious
and
exceeding
great
promises;
that
through
these
ye
may
become
partakers
of
the
divine
nature,
having
escaped
from
the
corruption
that
is
in
the
world
by
lust.
\VS{5}Yea,
and
for
this
very
cause
adding
on
your
part
all
diligence,
in
your
faith
supply virtue;
and
in
{\ADD{
your}} virtue
knowledge;
\VS{6}and
in
{\ADD{
your}}
knowledge
self-control;
and
in
{\ADD{
your}}
self-control
patience;
and
in
{\ADD{
your}}
patience
godliness;
\VS{7}and
in
{\ADD{
your}}
godliness
brotherly
kindness;
and
in
{\ADD{
your}}
brotherly
kindness
love.
\VS{8}For
if
these
things
are
yours
and
abound,
they
make
you
to
be
not
idle
nor
unfruitful
unto
the
knowledge
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{9}For
he
that
lacketh
these
things
is
blind,
seeing
only
what
is
near,
having
forgotten
the
cleansing
from
his
old
sins.
\VS{10}Wherefore,
brethren,
give
the
more
diligence
to
make
your
calling
and
election
sure:
for
if
ye
do
these
things,
ye
shall
never
stumble:
\VS{11}for
thus
shall
be
richly
supplied
unto
you
the
entrance
into
the
eternal
kingdom
of
our
Lord
and
Saviour
Jesus
Christ.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Wherefore
I
shall
be
ready
always
to
put
you
in
remembrance
of
these
things,
though
ye
know
them,
and
are
established
in
the
truth
which
is
with
{\ADD{
you}}.
\VS{13}And
I
think
it
right,
as
long
as
I
am
in
this
tabernacle,
to
stir
you
up
by
putting
you
in
remembrance;
\VS{14}knowing
that
the
putting
off
of
my
tabernacle
cometh
swiftly,
even
as
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ signified
unto
me.
\VS{15}Yea,
I
will
give
diligence
that
at
every
time
ye
may
be
able
after
my
decease
to
call
these
things
to
remembrance.
\VS{16}For
we
did
not
follow
cunningly
devised
fables,
when
we
made
known
unto
you
the
power
and
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
but
we
were
eyewitnesses
of
his
majesty.
\VS{17}For
he
received
from
God
the
Father
honor
and
glory,
when
there
was
borne
such
a
voice
to
him
by
the
Majestic
Glory,
This
is
my
beloved
Son,
in
whom
I
am
well
pleased:
\VS{18}and
this
voice
we
{\ADD{
ourselves}}
heard
borne
out
of
heaven,
when
we
were
with
him
in
the
holy
mount.
\VS{19}And
we
have
the
word
of
prophecy
{\ADD{
made}}
more
sure;
whereunto
ye
do
well
that
ye
take
heed,
as
unto
a
lamp
shining
in
a
dark
place,
until
the
day
dawn,
and
the day-star
arise
in
your
hearts:
\VS{20}knowing
this
first,
that
no
prophecy
of
scripture
is
of
private
interpretation.
\VS{21}For
no
prophecy
ever
came
by
the
will
of
man:
but
men
spake
from
God,
being
moved
by
the
Holy
Spirit.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
there
arose
false
prophets
also
among
the
people,
as
among
you
also
there
shall
be
false
teachers,
who
shall
privily
bring
in
destructive heresies,
denying
even
the
Master
that
bought
them,
bringing
upon
themselves
swift
destruction.
\VS{2}And
many
shall
follow
their lascivious
doings;
by
reason
of
whom
the
way
of
the
truth
shall
be
evil
spoken
of.
\VS{3}And
in
covetousness
shall
they
with
feigned
words
make
merchandise
of
you:
whose
sentence
now
from
of
old lingereth
not,
and
their
destruction
slumbereth
not.
\VS{4}For
if
God
spared
not
angels
when
they
sinned,
but
cast
them
down
to
hell,
and
committed
them
to
pits
of
darkness,
to
be
reserved
unto
judgment;
\VS{5}and
spared
not
the
ancient
world,
but
preserved
Noah
with
seven
others,
a
preacher
of
righteousness,
when
he
brought
a
flood
upon
the
world
of
the
ungodly;
\VS{6}and
turning
the
cities
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
into
ashes
condemned
them
with
an
overthrow,
having
made
them
an
example
unto
those
that
should
live
ungodly;
\VS{7}and
delivered
righteous
Lot,
sore
distressed
by
the lascivious
life
of
the
wicked
\VS{8}(for
that
righteous
man
dwelling
among
them,
in
seeing
and
hearing,
vexed
{\ADD{
his}}
righteous
soul
from
day
to
day
with
{\ADD{
their}}
lawless
deeds):
\VS{9}the
Lord
knoweth
how
to
deliver
the
godly
out
of
temptation,
and
to
keep
the
unrighteous
under
punishment
unto
the
day
of
judgment;
\VS{10}but
chiefly
them
that
walk
after
the
flesh
in
the
lust
of
defilement,
and
despise
dominion.
Daring, self-willed,
they
tremble
not
to
rail
at
dignities:
\VS{11}whereas
angels,
though
greater
in
might
and
power,
bring
not
a railing
judgment
against
them
before
the
Lord.
\VS{12}But
these,
as
creatures
without
reason,
born
mere
animals
to
be
taken
and
destroyed, railing
in
matters
whereof
they
are
ignorant,
shall
in
their
destroying
surely
be
destroyed,
\VS{13}suffering
wrong
as
the
hire
of wrong-doing;
{\ADD{
men}}
that
count
it
pleasure
to
revel
in
the day-time,
spots
and
blemishes, revelling
in
their deceivings
while
they
feast
with
you;
\VS{14}having
eyes
full
of
adultery,
and
that
cannot
cease
from
sin;
enticing unstedfast
souls;
having
a
heart
exercised
in
covetousness;
children
of
cursing;
\VS{15}forsaking
the
right
way,
they
went
astray,
having
followed
the
way
of
Balaam
the
{\ADD{
son}}
of
Beor,
who
loved
the
hire
of wrong-doing;
\VS{16}but
he
was
rebuked
for
his
own
transgression:
a
dumb
ass
spake
with
man’s
voice
and
stayed
the
madness
of
the
prophet.
\VS{17}These
are
springs
without
water,
and mists
driven
by
a
storm;
for
whom
the
blackness
of
darkness
hath
been
reserved.
\VS{18}For,
uttering
great
swelling
{\ADD{
words}}
of
vanity,
they
entice
in
the
lusts
of
the
flesh,
by lasciviousness,
those
who
are
just
escaping
from
them
that
live
in
error;
\VS{19}promising
them
liberty,
while
they
themselves
are bondservants
of
corruption;
for
of
whom
a
man
is
overcome,
of
the
same
is
he
also
brought
into
bondage.
\VS{20}For
if,
after
they
have
escaped
the
defilements
of
the
world
through
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
and
Saviour
Jesus
Christ,
they
are
again
entangled
therein
and
overcome,
the
last
state
is
become
worse
with
them
than
the
first.
\VS{21}For
it
were
better
for
them
not
to
have
known
the
way
of
righteousness,
than,
after
knowing
it,
to
turn
back
from
the
holy
commandment
delivered
unto
them.
\VS{22}It
has
happened
unto
them
according
to
the
true
proverb,
The
dog
turning
to
his
own
vomit
again,
and
the
sow
that
had
washed
to
wallowing
in
the
mire.
\par }{\BB \par }
\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
now,
beloved,
the
second
epistle
that
I
write
unto
you;
and
in
both
of
them
I
stir
up
your
sincere
mind
by
putting
you
in
remembrance;
\VS{2}that
ye
should
remember
the
words
which
were
spoken
before
by
the
holy
prophets,
and
the
commandment
of
the
Lord
and
Saviour
through
your apostles:
\VS{3}knowing
this
first,
that
in
the
last
days
mockers
shall
come
with
mockery,
walking
after
their
own
lusts,
\VS{4}and
saying,
Where
is
the
promise
of
his
coming?
for,
from
the
day
that
the
fathers
fell
asleep,
all
things
continue
as
they
were
from
the
beginning
of
the
creation.
\VS{5}For
this
they wilfully
forget,
that
there
were
heavens
from
of
old,
and
an
earth compacted
out
of
water
and
amidst
water,
by
the
word
of
God;
\VS{6}by
which
means
the
world
that
then
was,
being
overflowed
with
water,
perished:
\VS{7}but
the
heavens
that
now
are,
and
the
earth,
by
the
same
word
have
been
stored
up
for
fire,
being
reserved
against
the
day
of
judgment
and
destruction
of
ungodly
men.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}But
forget
not
this
one
thing,
beloved,
that
one
day
is
with
the
Lord
as
a
thousand
years,
and
a
thousand
years
as
one
day.
\VS{9}The
Lord
is
not
slack
concerning
his
promise,
as
some
count
slackness;
but
is
longsuffering
to you-ward,
not
wishing
that
any
should
perish,
but
that
all
should
come
to
repentance.
\VS{10}But
the
day
of
the
Lord
will
come
as
a
thief;
in
the
which
the
heavens
shall
pass
away
with
a
great
noise,
and
the
elements
shall
be
dissolved
with
fervent
heat,
and
the
earth
and
the
works
that
are
therein
shall
be
burned
up.
\VS{11}Seeing
that
these
things
are
thus
all
to
be
dissolved,
what
manner
of
persons
ought
ye
to
be
in
{\ADD{
all}}
holy
living
and
godliness,
\VS{12}looking
for
and
earnestly desiring
the
coming
of
the
day
of
God,
by
reason
of
which
the
heavens
being
on
fire
shall
be
dissolved,
and
the
elements
shall
melt
with
fervent
heat?
\VS{13}But,
according
to
his
promise,
we
look
for
new
heavens
and
a
new
earth,
wherein
dwelleth
righteousness.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Wherefore,
beloved,
seeing
that
ye
look
for
these
things,
give
diligence
that
ye
may
be
found
in
peace,
without
spot
and
blameless
in
his
sight.
\VS{15}And
account
that
the
longsuffering
of
our
Lord
is
salvation;
even
as
our
beloved
brother
Paul
also,
according
to
the
wisdom
given
to
him,
wrote
unto
you;
\VS{16}as
also
in
all
{\ADD{
his}}
epistles,
speaking
in
them
of
these
things;
wherein
are
some
things
hard
to
be
understood,
which
the
ignorant
and unstedfast
wrest,
as
{\ADD{
they
do}}
also
the
other
scriptures,
unto
their
own
destruction.
\VS{17}Ye
therefore,
beloved,
knowing
{\ADD{
these
things}}
beforehand,
beware
lest,
being
carried
away
with
the
error
of
the
wicked,
ye
fall
from
your
own
stedfastness.
\VS{18}But
grow
in
the
grace
and
knowledge
of
our
Lord
and
Saviour
Jesus
Christ.
To
him
{\ADD{
be}}
the
glory
both
now
and
for
ever.
Amen.
\par }