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The next file is: 2PETER
1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to
them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ:
1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge
of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
1:3 According as his divine power hath given to us all things
that [pertain] to life and godliness, through the knowledge of
him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
1:4 Whereby are given to 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 besides 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 ye shall] 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
afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purified from his old
sins.
1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall
never fall:
1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.
1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in
remembrance of these things, though ye know [them], and are
established in the present truth.
1:13 Indeed, I think it meet, as long as I am in this
tabernacle, to stir you 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 shown me.
1:15 Moreover, I will endeavor that ye may be able, after my
decease, to have these things always in remembrance.
1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we
made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
1:17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when
there came 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 with him on the holy mount.
1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which ye do
well that ye take heed, as to 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 prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but
holy men of God spoke [as they were] moved by the Holy Spirit.
2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as
there will be false teachers among you, who will privately
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought
them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2:2 And many will follow their pernicious ways; by reason of
whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of.
2:3 And through covetousness they will with feigned words make
merchandise 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] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of
darkness, to be reserved to judgment;
2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth
[person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood upon
the world of the ungodly;
2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes,
condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an example to
those that afterwards should live ungodly lives.
2:7 And delivered just Lot, grieved with the habitual lewdness
of the wicked:
2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and
hearing, grieved [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 to 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],
self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2:11 Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, bring
not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
destroyed, 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: they have a heart exercised with
covetous practices; cursed children:
2:15 Who have forsaken the right way, and 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
a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
2:18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they
allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much]
wantonness, those that had quite escaped from them who live in
error.
2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the
servants of corruption: for by whom a man is overcome, by the
same is he brought into bondage.
2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they
are again entangled in them, 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
of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn
from the holy commandment delivered to them.
2:22 But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb,
The dog [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 to you; in [both]
which I 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 Savior:
3:3 Knowing this first, that there will 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
God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the
water and in the water:
3:6 By which 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 to 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 [is] with 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
count slackness; but is long-suffering toward us, 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 which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the
elements will melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the
works that are therein will be burned up.
3:11 [Seeing] then [that] all these things will be dissolved,
what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy
deportment and godliness,
3:12 Looking for and hasting to the coming of the day of God, in
which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the
elements will melt with fervent heat?
3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth, in which dwelleth righteousness.
3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be found by him in peace, without spot,
and blameless.
3:15 And account [that] the long-suffering of our Lord [is]
salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to
the wisdom given to him, hath written to 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, to their own destruction.
3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know [these things]
before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of
the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
3:18 But grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and for ever.
Amen.