/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 SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST-
/1-2- GRACE AND PEACE BE MULTIPLIED UNTO YOU THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
AND OF JESUS OUR LORD
/1-3- ACCORDING AS HIS DIVINE POWER HATH GIVEN UNTO US ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN UNTO LIFE AND GODLINESS
THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM THAT HATH CALLED US TO GLORY AND VIRTUE-
/1-4- WHEREBY ARE GIVEN UNTO 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 BESIDE 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 PURGED 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 UNTO YOU ABUNDANTLY INTO THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.
/1-12- WHEREFORE I WILL NOT BE NEGLIGENT TO PUT YOU ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE THINGS
THOUGH YE KNOW THEM
AND BE ESTABLISHED IN THE PRESENT TRUTH.
/1-13- YEA
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 SHEWED ME.
/1-15- MOREOVER I WILL ENDEAVOUR 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 UNTO YOU THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
BUT WERE EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY.
/1-17- FOR HE RECEIVED FROM GOD THE FATHER HONOUR 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 IN THE HOLY MOUNT.
/1-19- WE HAVE ALSO A MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY WHEREUNTO YE DO WELL THAT YE TAKE HEED
AS UNTO 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 THE PROPHECY CAME NOT IN OLD TIME BY THE WILL OF MAN- BUT HOLY MEN OF GOD SPAKE AS THEY WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY GHOST.
/2-1- BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE
EVEN AS THERE SHALL BE FALSE TEACHERS AMONG YOU
WHO PRIVILY SHALL BRING IN DAMNABLE HERESIES
EVEN DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM
AND BRING UPON THEMSELVES SWIFT DESTRUCTION.
/2-2- AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF.
/2-3- AND THROUGH COVETOUSNESS SHALL THEY 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 UNTO JUDGMENT
/2-5- AND SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD
BUT SAVED NOAH THE EIGHTH PERSON
A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
BRINGING IN THE FLOOD UPON THE WORLD OF THE UNGODLY
/2-6- AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRHA INTO ASHES CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW
MAKING THEM AN ENSAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT AFTER SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY
/2-7- AND DELIVERED JUST LOT
VEXED WITH THE FILTHY CONVERSATION OF THE WICKED-
/2-8- (FOR THAT RIGHTEOUS MAN DWELLING AMONG THEM
IN SEEING AND HEARING
VEXED 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 UNTO 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
SELFWILLED
THEY ARE NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK EVIL OF DIGNITIES.
/2-11- WHEREAS ANGELS
WHICH 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- AN HEART THEY HAVE EXERCISED WITH COVETOUS PRACTICES CURSED CHILDREN-
/2-15- WHICH HAVE FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY
AND ARE 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 WERE CLEAN ESCAPED FROM THEM WHO LIVE IN ERROR.
/2-19- WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY
THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE SERVANTS OF CORRUPTION- FOR OF WHOM A MAN IS OVERCOME
OF THE SAME IS HE BROUGHT IN BONDAGE.
/2-20- FOR IF AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED THEREIN
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 UNTO THEM.
/2-22- BUT IT IS HAPPENED UNTO 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 UNTO 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 SAVIOUR-
/3-3- KNOWING THIS FIRST
THAT THERE SHALL 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- WHEREBY 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 UNTO 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 LONGSUFFERING TO US-WARD
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 THE WHICH THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE
AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT
THE EARTH ALSO AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP.
/3-11- SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED
WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS
/3-12- LOOKING FOR AND HASTING UNTO THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD
WHEREIN THE HEAVENS BEING ON FIRE SHALL BE DISSOLVED
AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT?
/3-13- NEVERTHELESS WE
ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE
LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH
WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/3-14- WHEREFORE
BELOVED
SEEING THAT YE LOOK FOR SUCH THINGS
BE DILIGENT THAT YE MAY BE FOUND OF HIM IN PEACE
WITHOUT SPOT
AND BLAMELESS.
/3-15- AND ACCOUNT THAT THE LONGSUFFERING OF OUR LORD IS SALVATION EVEN AS OUR BELOVED BROTHER PAUL ALSO ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM GIVEN UNTO HIM HATH WRITTEN UNTO 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
UNTO 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 STEDFASTNESS.
/3-18- BUT GROW IN GRACE
AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. TO HIM BE GLORY BOTH NOW AND FOR EVER. AMEN.
