| 1 | ¶ Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have received like precious faith with us through {the} righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: | |
| 2 | Grace and peace be multiplied to you in {the} knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. | |
| 3 | As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue, | |
| 4 | through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of {the} divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. | |
| 5 | ¶ But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge, | |
| 6 | in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness, | |
| 7 | in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love: | |
| 8 | for these things existing and abounding in you make {you} to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; | |
| 9 | for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins. | |
| 10 | Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall; | |
| 11 | for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you. | |
| 12 | ¶ Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of these things, although knowing {them} and established in the present truth. | |
| 13 | But I account it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting {you} in remembrance, | |
| 14 | knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is speedily {to take place}, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has manifested to me; | |
| 15 | but I will use diligence, that after my departure ye should have also, at any time, {in your power} to call to mind these things. | |
| 16 | ¶ For we have not made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly imagined fables, but having been eyewitnesses of *his* majesty. | |
| 17 | For he received from God {the} Father honour and glory, such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom *I* have found my delight; | |
| 18 | and this voice *we* heard uttered from heaven, being with him on the holy mountain. | |
| 19 | ¶ And we have the prophetic word {made} surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until {the} day dawn and {the} morning star arise in your hearts; | |
| 20 | knowing this first, that {the scope of} no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation, | |
| 21 | for prophecy was not ever uttered by {the} will of man, but holy men of God spake under the power of {the} Holy Spirit. | |