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2 PETER |
Chapter 1
2PE 1:1 Simon
Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
to those who have received a faith of the same
kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and
Savior, Jesus Christ:
2PE 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to
you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
2PE 1:3 seeing that His divine power has
granted to us everything pertaining to life and
godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who
called us by His own glory and excellence.
2PE 1:4 For by these He has granted to us
His precious and magnificent promises, in order
that by them you might become partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped the corruption that
is in the world by lust.
2PE 1:5 Now for this very reason also,
applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral
excellence, and in your moral excellence,
knowledge;
2PE 1:6 and in your knowledge,
self-control, and in your self-control,
perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness;
2PE 1:7 and in your godliness, brotherly
kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
2PE 1:8 For if these qualities are yours
and are increasing, they render you neither
useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
2PE 1:9 For he who lacks these qualities is
blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his
purification from his former sins.
2PE 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be all the
more diligent to make certain about His calling
and choosing you; for as long as you practice
these things, you will never stumble;
2PE 1:11 for in this way the entrance into
the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.
2PE 1:12 Therefore, I shall always be ready
to remind you of these things, even though you
already know them, and have been established in
the truth which is present with you.
2PE 1:13 And I consider it right, as long
as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up
by way of reminder,
2PE 1:14 knowing that the laying aside of
my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord
Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
2PE 1:15 And I will also be diligent that
at any time after my departure you may be able to
call these things to mind.
2PE 1:16 For we did not follow cleverly
devised tales when we made known to you the power
and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were
eyewitnesses of His majesty.
2PE 1:17 For when He received honor and
glory from God the Father, such an utterance as
this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, "This
is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased" - -
2PE 1:18 and we ourselves heard this
utterance made from heaven when we were with Him
on the holy mountain.
2PE 1:19 And so we have the prophetic word
made more sure, to which you do well to pay
attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place,
until the day dawns and the morning star arises in
your hearts.
2PE 1:20 But know this first of all, that
no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own
interpretation,
2PE 1:21 for no prophecy was ever made by
an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy
Spirit spoke from God.
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Chapter 2
2PE 2:1 But
false prophets also arose among the people, just
as there will also be false teachers among you,
who will secretly introduce destructive heresies,
even denying the Master who bought them, bringing
swift destruction upon themselves.
2PE 2:2 And many will follow their
sensuality, and because of them the way of the
truth will be maligned;
2PE 2:3 and in their greed they will
exploit you with false words; their judgment from
long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not
asleep.
2PE 2:4 For if God did not spare angels
when they sinned, but cast them into hell and
committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for
judgment;
2PE 2:5 and did not spare the ancient
world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of
righteousness, with seven others, when He brought
a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2PE 2:6 and if He condemned the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them
to ashes, having made them an example to those who
would live ungodly thereafter;
2PE 2:7 and if He rescued righteous Lot,
oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled
men
2PE 2:8 (for by what he saw and heard that
righteous man, while living among them, felt his
righteous soul tormented day after day with their
lawless deeds),
2PE 2:9 then the Lord knows how to rescue
the godly from temptation, and to keep the
unrighteous under punishment for the day of
judgment,
2PE 2:10 and especially those who indulge
the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise
authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not
tremble when they revile angelic majesties,
2PE 2:11 whereas angels who are greater in
might and power do not bring a reviling judgment
against them before the Lord.
2PE 2:12 But these, like unreasoning
animals, born as creatures of instinct to be
captured and killed, reviling where they have no
knowledge, will in the destruction of those
creatures also be destroyed,
2PE 2:13 suffering wrong as the wages of
doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in
the daytime. They are stains and blemishes,
reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with
you,
2PE 2:14 having eyes full of adultery and
that never cease from sin, enticing unstable
souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed
children;
2PE 2:15 forsaking the right way they have
gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam,
the son of Beor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness,
2PE 2:16 but he received a rebuke for his
own transgression; for a dumb donkey, speaking
with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of
the prophet.
2PE 2:17 These are springs without water,
and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black
darkness has been reserved.
2PE 2:18 For speaking out arrogant words of
vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by
sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones
who live in error,
2PE 2:19 promising them freedom while they
themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a
man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.
2PE 2:20 For if after they have escaped the
defilements of the world by the knowledge of the
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled in them and are overcome, the last state
has become worse for them than the first.
2PE 2:21 For it would be better for them
not to have known the way of righteousness, than
having known it, to turn away from the holy
commandment delivered to them.
2PE 2:22 It has happened to them according
to the true proverb, "A dog returns to its own
vomit," and, "A sow, after washing, returns to
wallowing in the mire."
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Chapter 3
2PE 3:1 This is
now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to
you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by
way of reminder,
2PE 3:2 that you should remember the words
spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the
commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your
apostles.
2PE 3:3 Know this first of all, that in the
last days mockers will come with their mocking,
following after their own lusts,
2PE 3:4 and saying, "Where is the promise
of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell
asleep, all continues just as it was from the
beginning of creation."
2PE 3:5 For when they maintain this, it
escapes their notice that by the word of God the
heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed
out of water and by water,
2PE 3:6 through which the world at that
time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
2PE 3:7 But the present heavens and earth
by His word are being reserved for fire, kept for
the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly
men.
2PE 3:8 But do not let this one fact escape
your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day
is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as
one day.
2PE 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His
promise, as some count slowness, but is patient
toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for
all to come to repentance.
2PE 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come
like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away
with a roar and the elements will be destroyed
with intense heat, and the earth and its works
will be burned up.
2PE 3:11 Since all these things are to be
destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought
you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
2PE 3:12 looking for and hastening the
coming of the day of God, on account of which the
heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the
elements will melt with intense heat!
2PE 3:13 But according to His promise we
are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in
which righteousness dwells.
2PE 3:14 Therefore, beloved, since you look
for these things, be diligent to be found by Him
in peace, spotless and blameless,
2PE 3:15 and regard the patience of our
Lord to be salvation; just as also our beloved
brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him,
wrote to you,
2PE 3:16 as also in all his letters,
speaking in them of these things, in which are
some things hard to understand, which the untaught
and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of
the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
2PE 3:17 You therefore, beloved, knowing
this beforehand, be on your guard lest, being
carried away by the error of unprincipled men, you
fall from your own steadfastness,
2PE 3:18 but grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To
Him be the glory, both now and to the day of
eternity. Amen.
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