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2 Peter 1:1-3:18 (KJV)  
    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: [2] Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of
Jesus our Lord, [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: [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. [5] And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; [6] And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness; [7] And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity. [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.
[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. [10] Wherefore the rather, brethren, give
diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall
never fall: [11] For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
    [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. [13] Yea, I think
it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in
remembrance; [14] Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our
Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. [15] Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able
after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. [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. [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. [18] And this voice which came
from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. [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: [20]
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
[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] And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
[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. [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; [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; [6] And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should
live ungodly; [7] And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the
wicked: [8] (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his
righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) [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: [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. [11] Whereas angels, which are greater in power and
might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. [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; [13] And shall receive
the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime.
Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they
feast with you; [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: [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; [16] But was rebuked
for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the
prophet. [17] These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to
whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. [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. [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. [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.
[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. [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: [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] Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts, [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. [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: [6]
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: [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. [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. [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. [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. [11] Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of
persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, [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? [13] Nevertheless we, according
to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
[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. [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; [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. [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. [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.