2 Peter
Chapter 1
1:1Simon Peter a servant and an Apostle of Jesus Christos, to you which have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our Theos and Savior Jesus Christos:
1:2Grace and peace be multiplied to you, through the knowledge of Theos,and of Jesus our Kyrios,
1:3According as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue.
1:4By what most great and precious promises are given to us,that by them you should be partakers of the divine nature, in that you flee the corruption, which is in the world through lust.
1:5Therefore give even all diligence thereto:join moreover virtue with your faith:and with virtue, knowledge:
1:6And with knowledge, temperance:and with temperance, patience:and with patience, godliness:
1:7And with godliness, brotherly kindness:and with brotherly kindness, love.
1:8For if these things be among you,and abound, they will make you that you neither shall be idle, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Kyrios Jesus Christos:
1:9For he that has not these things, is blind, and cannot see far off, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
1:10Therefore, brethren, give rather diligence to make your calling and election sure:for if you do these things, you shall never fall.
1:11For by this means an entering shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Kyrios and Savior Jesus Christos.
1:12Therefore, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though that you have knowledge,and be established in the present truth.
1:13For I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance,
1:14Seeing I know that the time is at hand that I must lay down this my tabernacle, even as our Kyrios Jesus Christos has showed me.
1:15I will endeavor therefore always,that you also may be able to have remembrance of these things after my departing.
1:16For we followed not deceivable fables when we made known to you the power,and coming of our Kyrios Jesus Christos,but with our eyes we saw his majesty:
1:17For he received of Theos the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from that excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
1:18And this voice we heard when it came from heaven, being with him in the Holy mount.
1:19We have also a most sure word of the Prophets, to the which you do well that you take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn,and the day star arise in your hearts.
1:20So that you first know this,that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
1:21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:but holy men of Theos spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
Chapter 2
2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you:which secretly shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord,that has bought them,and bring upon themselves swift damnation.
2:2And many shall follow their destructions, by whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of,
2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose condemnation long since rests not,and their destruction slumber not.
2:4For if Theos spared not the Angels that had sinned,but cast them down into hell,and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment:
2:5Neither has spared the old world,but preserved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,and brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly,
2:6And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them and overthrew them,and made them an example to them that after should live ungodly,
2:7And delivered just Lot vexed with the uncleanly conduct of the wicked:
2:8(For he being righteous, and dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds.)
2:9The Kyrios knows to deliver the godly out of temptation,and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment under punishment.
2:10And chiefly them that walk after the flesh, in the lust of uncleanness,and despise government, which are bold,and stand in their own conceit,and fear not to speak evil of them that are in dignity.
2:11Whereas the Angels who are greater both in power and might, do not give railing judgment against them before the Kyrios.
2:12But these, as natural brute beasts, led with sensuality and made to be taken,and destroyed, speak evil of those things which they know not,and shall perish through their own corruption,
2:13And shall receive the wages of unrighteousness, as they who count it pleasure daily to live deliciously. Spots they are and blots, delighting themselves in their deceivings, in feasting with you,
2:14Having eyes full of adultery,and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable psyches:they have hearts exercised with covetousness, they are the children of curse:
2:15Which forsaking the right way, have gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor, which loved the wages of unrighteousness.
2:16But he was rebuked for his iniquity:for the dumb beast speaking with man's voice, forbade the foolishness of the Prophet.
2:17These are wells without water,and clouds carried about with a tempest, to whom the black darkness is reserved forever.
2:18For in speaking swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped from them which are wrapped in error,
2:19Promising to them liberty,and are themselves the servants of corruption:for of whomever a man is overcome, even to the same is he in bondage.
2:20For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world, through the knowledge of the Kyrios, and of the Savior Jesus Christos, are yet tangled again in it, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2:21For it had been better for them, not to have acknowledged the way of righteousness, than after they have acknowledged it, to turn from the holy commandment given to them.
2:22But it is come to them, according to the true Proverb, The dog is returned to his own vomit:and, The sow that was washed, to the wallowing in the mire.
Chapter 3
3:1This second Epistle I now write to you, beloved, in which I stir up and warn your pure minds,
3:2To call to remembrance the words, which were told before of the holy Prophets,and also the commandment of us the Apostles of the Kyrios and Savior.
3:3This first understand,that there shall come in the last days, mockers, which will walk after their lusts,
3:4And say, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.
3:5For this they willingly know not,that the heavens were of old,and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of Theos.
3:6Therefore the world that then was, perished, overflowed with the water.
3:7But the heavens and earth, which are now, are kept by the same word in store,and reserved to fire against the day of condemnation,and of the destruction of ungodly men.
3:8Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,that one day is with the Kyrios, as a thousand years,and a thousand years as one day.
3:9The Kyrios of that promise is not slack (as some men count slackness) but is patient toward us,and would have no man to perish,but would all men to come to repentance.
3:10But the day of the Kyrios will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth with the works that are in it, shall be burnt up.
3:11Seeing therefore that all these things must be dissolved, what manner persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
3:12Looking for,and hastening to the coming of that day of Theos, by the which the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved,and the elements shall melt with heat?
3:13But we look for new heavens, and a new earth, according to his promise, in which dwells righteousness.
3:14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.
3:15And suppose that the long suffering of our Kyrios is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him wrote to you,
3:16As one,that in all his Epistles speaks of these things:among the which some things are hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do also other Scriptures to their own destruction.
3:17You therefore beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware,lest you be also plucked away with the error of the wicked,and fall from your own steadfastness.
3:18But grow in grace,and in the knowledge of our Kyrios and Savior Jesus Christos:to him be glory both now and for evermore. Amen.