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.

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