\NormalFont\ShortTitle{2 Peter}
{\MT Peter’s Second Letter

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Simon
Peter,
a
servant
and
Apostle
of
Jesus
Christ,
to
those
who
with
us
have
a
part
in
the
same holy
faith
in
the
righteousness
of
our
God
and Saviour
Jesus
Christ:
\VS{2}May
grace
and
peace ever
be
increasing
in
you,
in
the
knowledge
of
God
and
of
Jesus
our
Lord;
\VS{3}Because
by
his
power
he
has
given
us
everything
necessary
for
life
and
righteousness,
through
the
knowledge
of
him
who
has
been
our guide
by
his
glory
and virtue;
\VS{4}And
through
this
he
has given
us
the hope
of
great rewards highly
to
be valued;
so
that
by
them
we
might
have
our
part
in God's
being,
and
be
made free
from
the
destruction
which
is
in
the
world
through
the
desires
of
the flesh.
\VS{5}So,
for
this
very cause, take
every care; joining virtue
to
faith,
and
knowledge
to virtue,
\VS{6}And
self-control
to
knowledge,
and
a quiet mind
to
self-control,
and fear
of God
to
a quiet mind,
\VS{7}And
love
of
the brothers
to fear
of God,
and
to
love
of
the brothers,
love itself.
\VS{8}For
if
you
have
these
things
in good measure,
they
will
make
you fertile
and full
of
fruit
in
the
knowledge
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{9}For
the
man
who
has
not
these
things
is
blind, seeing only
what
is near, having
no memory
of how
he
was made clean
from
his old
sins.
\VS{10}For
this
reason,
my
brothers, take
all
the
more care
to
make
your selection
and approval
certain;
for
if
you
do
these
things
you
will
never
have
a fall:
\VS{11}For
so
the
way
will
be open
to
you
into
the
eternal
kingdom
of
our
Lord
and Saviour
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{12}For
this
reason
I
will
be
ready
at
all times
to keep
your memory
of
these
things awake,
though
you
have
the knowledge
of
them
now
and
are
well based
in
your
present faith.
\VS{13}And
it seems
right
to
me,
as
long
as
I
am
in
this tent
of flesh,
to keep
your minds awake
by working
on
your memory;
\VS{14}For
I
am conscious
that
in
a short time
I
will
have
to put off
this tent
of flesh,
as
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
has
made
clear
to
me.
\VS{15}And
I
will
take
every care
so
that
you
may
have
a clear memory
of
these
things
after
my death.
\VS{16}For
when
we gave
you news
of
the
power
and
the
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
our teaching
was
not based
on stories
put
together
by art,
but
we
were eye-witnesses
of
his glory.
\VS{17}For
God
the
Father gave
him honour
and
glory,
when
such
a
voice
came
to
him
out
of
the great
glory, saying,
This
is
my dearly loved
Son,
with
whom
I
am
well
pleased.
\VS{18}And
this
voice
came
from
heaven
even
to
our
ears,
when
we
were
with
him
on
the
holy
mountain.
\VS{19}And
so
the
words
of
the
prophets
are
made
more
certain;
and
it
is
well
for
you
to
give
attention
to
them
as
to
a
light
shining
in
a dark
place, till
the dawn
comes
and
the
morning
star
is
seen
in
your
hearts;
\VS{20}Being conscious
in
the
first
place
that
no
man
by
himself
may
give
a special sense
to
the words
of
the prophets.
\VS{21}For these words did
not
ever come
through
the
impulse
of
men:
but
the prophets
had
them
from
God,
being
moved
by
the
Holy
Spirit.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
there
were
false
prophets
among
the
people,
as
there
will
be
false
teachers
among
you,
who
will
secretly
put forward wrong teachings
for
your
destruction,
even turning away
from
the
Lord
who gave
himself
for
them;
whose
destruction
will
come
quickly,
and
they
themselves
will
be
the cause
of
it.
\VS{2}And
a
great
number
will go
with
them
in
their
evil
ways,
through
whom
the
true
way
will
have
a bad name.
\VS{3}And
in
their desire
for profit
they
will come
to
you
with
words
of deceit,
like traders doing
business
in souls:
whose
punishment
has
been ready
for
a
long time
and
their
destruction
is watching
for
them.
\VS{4}For
if
God
did
not
have pity
for
the
angels
who
did evil,
but sent
them
down
into
hell,
to
be
kept
in chains
of eternal night till
they
were judged;
\VS{5}And
did
not
have mercy
on
the
world
which
then
was,
but
only
kept safe
Noah,
a
preacher
of
righteousness,
with
seven
others,
when
he let loose
the waters over
the
world
of
the evil-doers;
\VS{6}And sent
destruction
on
Sodom
and
Gomorrah, burning them up
with fire
as
an
example
to
those whose
way
of life
might
in
the
future
be unpleasing
to
him;
\VS{7}And kept
safe
Lot,
the
upright
man,
who
was deeply troubled
by
the unclean
life
of
the evil-doers
\VS{8}(Because
the
soul
of
that
upright
man
living
among
them
was pained
from
day
to
day
by seeing
and
hearing
their crimes):
\VS{9}The
Lord
is able
to
keep
the upright
safe
in
the
time
of
testing,
and
to
keep evil-doers
under
punishment till
the
day
of judging;
\VS{10}But specially
those
who
go
after
the unclean
desires
of
the
flesh,
and
make sport
of
authority. Ready
to take chances, uncontrolled,
they
have
no fear
of saying
evil
of
those
in high places:
\VS{11}Though
the
angels,
who
are
greater
in
strength
and
power,
do
not
make use
of violent language
against
them
before
the
Lord.
\VS{12}But
these
men,
like beasts
without
reason,
whose
natural use
is
to
be taken
and put
to death, crying out
against
things
of
which
they
have
no
knowledge,
will undergo
that
same
destruction
which
they
are designing
for
others;
\VS{13}For
the
evil
which overtakes
them
is
the
reward
of
their evil-doing: such
men take
their
pleasure
in
the delights
of
the flesh
even
in
the
daytime;
they
are
like
the marks
of
a disease,
like poisoned wounds
among
you,
feasting
together
with
you
in joy;
\VS{14}Having
eyes
full
of evil desire,
never
having enough
of
sin; turning feeble
souls out
of
the true way;
they
are
children
of
cursing, whose
hearts
are
well used
to bitter
envy;
\VS{15}Turning out
of
the true
way,
they
have
gone
wandering
in error, after
the
way
of
Balaam,
the son
of Beor,
who
was pleased
to take payment
for wrongdoing;
\VS{16}But
his wrongdoing
was pointed
out
to
him:
an ass, talking
with
a man's
voice, put
a
stop
to
the error
of
the
prophet.
\VS{17}These
are fountains
without
water,
and mists
before
a driving
storm;
for
whom
the eternal night
is
kept
in store.
\VS{18}For
with
high-sounding false words, making use
of
the attraction
of unclean
desires
of
the
flesh,
they get
into
their power
those newly made free
from
those
who
are living
in
error;
\VS{19}Saying
that
they
will
be free,
while
they
themselves
are
the
servants
of
destruction;
because
whatever gets
the better
of
a
man makes
a
servant
of
him.
\VS{20}For
if,
after
they
have
got free
from
the unclean
things
of
the
world
through
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
and Saviour
Jesus
Christ,
they
are
again
taken
in
the net
and
overcome,
their
last condition
is
worse
than
their
first.
\VS{21}For
it
would
have
been
better
for
them
to
have
had
no knowledge
of
the
way
of
righteousness,
than
to go
back again
from
the
holy law
which
was
given
to
them,
after
having knowledge
of
it.
\VS{22}They
are
an example
of
that
true saying,
The
dog
has gone
back
to
the food
it
had put out,
and
the pig
which
had
been
washed
to
its rolling
in
the dirty earth.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My loved ones,
this
is
now
my
second
letter
to
you,
and
in
this
as
in
the first,
I am attempting
to keep
your true
minds awake;
\VS{2}So
that
you
may keep
in
mind
the
words
of
the
holy
prophets
in
the past,
and
the law
of
the
Lord
and Saviour
which
was given
to
you
by
his
Apostles.
\VS{3}Having
first
of
all
the knowledge
that
in
the
last
days
there
will
be
men
who, ruled
by
their evil
desires,
will make sport
of holy
things,
\VS{4}Saying,
Where
is
the hope
of
his
coming?
From
the death
of
the
fathers till
now
everything
has gone
on
as
it
was
from
the making
of
the world.
\VS{5}But
in taking
this
view
they put
out
of
their minds
the memory
that
in
the old days
there
was
a
heaven,
and
an
earth lifted
out
of
the
water
and circled
by
water,
by
the
word
of
God;
\VS{6}And
that
the
world
which
then
was
came
to
an
end
through
the overflowing
of
the
waters.
\VS{7}But
the
present
heaven
and
the
present
earth
have
been
kept
for
destruction
by
fire,
which
is waiting
for
them
on
the
day
of
the judging
and
destruction
of evil
men.
\VS{8}But,
my loved
ones,
keep
in
mind
this
one
thing,
that
with
the
Lord
one
day
is
the
same
as
a
thousand
years,
and
a
thousand
years
are
no more
than
one
day.
\VS{9}The
Lord
is
not
slow
in keeping
his word,
as
he seems
to
some,
but
he
is waiting
in mercy
for
you,
not
desiring
the destruction
of
any,
but
that
all
may
be turned
from
their evil ways.
\VS{10}But
the
day
of
the
Lord
will
come
like
a
thief;
and
in
that
day
the
heavens
will
be rolled
up
with
a great noise,
and
the substance
of
the
earth
will
be changed
by violent heat,
and
the
world
and everything
in
it
will
be
burned
up.
\VS{11}Seeing
then
that
all
these
things
are coming
to
such
an
end,
what
sort
of persons
is
it right
for
you
to
be,
in
all
holy behaviour
and righteousness,
\VS{12}Looking
for
and truly desiring
the
coming
of
the
day
of
God,
when
the
heavens
will
come
to
an
end
through fire,
and
the substance
of
the earth
will
be changed
by
the great heat?
\VS{13}But having
faith
in
his word,
we
are
looking
for
a
new
heaven
and
a
new
earth,
which
will
be
the resting-place
of
righteousness.
\VS{14}For
this
reason,
my loved ones,
as
you
are
looking
for
these
things, take great care
that
when
he
comes
you
may
be
in
peace
before
him, free
from sin
and
every evil
thing.
\VS{15}And
be
certain
that
the long waiting
of
the
Lord
is
for
salvation;
even
as
our
brother
Paul
has
said
in
his letters
to
you,
from
the
wisdom
which
was
given
to
him;
\VS{16}And
as
he
said
in
all
his
letters,
which
had
to
do
with
these
things;
in
which
are
some
hard sayings,
so
that,
like
the
rest
of
the holy Writings,
they
are twisted
by
those
who
are uncertain
and
without knowledge,
to
the
destruction
of
their souls.
\VS{17}For
this reason,
my loved ones,
having knowledge
of
these
things
before
they take place, take care
that
you
are
not turned
away
by
the
error
of
the uncontrolled,
so falling
from
your true faith.
\VS{18}But
be
increased
in
grace
and
in
the
knowledge
of
our
Lord
and Saviour
Jesus
Christ.
May
he
have
glory
now
and
for
ever.
So
be
it.
\par }