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| Book 61 - New
Testament Book of 2 Peter - King James Version |
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SECOND
PETER
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| 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:
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| Grace and peace be
multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our
Lord,
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| 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:
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| 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.
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| And beside this,
giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue
knowledge;
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| And to knowledge
temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
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| And to godliness
brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
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| 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.
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| But he that lacketh
these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins.
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| Wherefore the
rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election
sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
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| For so an entrance
shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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| 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.
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| Yea, I think it
meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by
putting you in remembrance;
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| Knowing that shortly
I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ
hath shewed me.
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| Moreover I will
endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these
things always in remembrance.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| And this voice which
came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy
mount.
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| 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:
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| Knowing this first,
that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private
interpretation.
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| 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.
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2
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| 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.
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| And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.
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| 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.
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| 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;
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| 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;
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| 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;
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| And delivered just
Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
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| (For that righteous
man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his
righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
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| The Lord knoweth how
to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust
unto the day of judgment to be punished:
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| 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.
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| Whereas angels,
which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation
against them before the Lord.
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| 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;
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| 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;
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| Having eyes full of
adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable
souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices;
cursed children:
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| 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;
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| But was rebuked for
his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the
madness of the prophet.
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| These are wells
without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the
mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| CHAPTER
3
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| This second epistle,
beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure
minds by way of remembrance:
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| 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:
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| Knowing this first,
that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after
their own lusts,
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| 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.
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| 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:
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| Whereby the world
that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Seeing then that all
these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye
to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
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| 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?
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| Nevertheless we,
according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
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| Wherefore, beloved,
seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be
found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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| 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;
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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