\NormalFont\ShortTitle{2 Peter}

{\MT THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{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:

\VS{2}Grace
and
peace be
multiplied unto
you
through the
knowledge of
God,
and of
Jesus
our
Lord,

\VS{3}According
as
his
divine
power hath
given unto
us all
things
that
{\ADD{pertain}}
unto
life
and
godliness,
through the
knowledge of him that hath
called
us
to
glory
and
virtue:

\VS{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.

\VS{5}And
beside
this,
giving
all
diligence,
add
to
your
faith
virtue;
and
to
virtue
knowledge;

\VS{6}And
to
knowledge
temperance;
and
to
temperance
patience;
and
to
patience
godliness;

\VS{7}And
to
godliness brotherly
kindness;
and
to brotherly
kindness
charity.

\VS{8}For
if these
things
be in
you,
and
abound, they
make
{\ADD{you that ye shall}}
neither
{\ADD{be}}
barren
nor
unfruitful
in the
knowledge
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.

\VS{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.

\VS{10}Wherefore the
rather,
brethren, give
diligence to
make
your
calling
and
election
sure:
for if ye
do these
things, ye
shall
never
fall:

\VS{11}For
so an
entrance shall be
ministered unto
you
abundantly
into the
everlasting
kingdom
of
our
Lord
and
Saviour
Jesus
Christ.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}Wherefore I
will
not be
negligent to
put
you
always in
remembrance
of these
things,
though ye
know
{\ADD{them}},
and be
established
in the
present
truth.

\VS{13}Yea, I think
it
meet, as long
as I
am
in
this
tabernacle, to
stir
you
up by
putting
{\ADD{you}}
in
remembrance;

\VS{14}Knowing
that
shortly I must put
off
{\ADD{this}}
my
tabernacle,
even
as
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ hath
shewed
me.

\VS{15}Moreover I will endeavour
that
ye may be
able
after
my
decease to
have these
things
always in
remembrance.

\VS{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.

\VS{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.

\VS{18}And
this
voice which
came
from
heaven
we
heard, when we
were
with
him
in
the
holy
mount.

\VS{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:

\VS{20}Knowing
this
first,
that
no
prophecy of the
scripture
is
of
any
private
interpretation.

\VS{21}For the
prophecy
came
not in old
time by the
will of
man:
but
holy
men
of
God
spake
{\ADD{as they were}}
moved by
the
Holy
Ghost.




\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{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.

\VS{2}And
many shall
follow
their pernicious
ways; by reason
of
whom the
way of
truth shall be evil spoken
of.

\VS{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.

\VS{4}For
if
God
spared
not the
angels that
sinned,
but
cast
{\ADD{them}} down to
hell, and
delivered
{\ADD{them}} into
chains of
darkness, to be
reserved
unto
judgment;

\VS{5}And
spared
not
the
old
world,
but
saved
Noah the
eighth
{\ADD{person}}, a
preacher of
righteousness, bringing
in the
flood upon the
world of the
ungodly;

\VS{6}And
turning the
cities of
Sodom
and
Gomorrha into
ashes
condemned
{\ADD{them}} with an
overthrow,
making
{\ADD{them}} an
ensample unto those that after
should live
ungodly;

\VS{7}And
delivered
just
Lot,
vexed
with the
filthy
conversation of the
wicked:

\VS{8}(For that righteous
man
dwelling
among
them, in
seeing
and
hearing,
vexed
{\ADD{his}}
righteous
soul
from
day
to
day
with
{\ADD{their}}
unlawful
deeds;)

\VS{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:

\VS{10}But
chiefly them that
walk
after the
flesh
in the
lust of
uncleanness,
and
despise
government.
Presumptuous
{\ADD{are they}},
selfwilled, they
are
not
afraid to speak evil
of
dignities.

\VS{11}Whereas
angels, which
are
greater in
power
and
might,
bring
not
railing
accusation
against
them
before the
Lord.

\VS{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;

\VS{13}And shall
receive the
reward of
unrighteousness,
{\ADD{as}} they that count
it
pleasure to
riot
in the day
time.
Spots
{\ADD{they are}}
and
blemishes, sporting
themselves
with their
own
deceivings while they feast
with
you;

\VS{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:

\VS{15}Which have
forsaken the
right
way, and are gone
astray,
following the
way of
Balaam
{\ADD{the son}} of
Bosor,
who
loved the
wages of
unrighteousness;

\VS{16}But
was
rebuked
for
his
iniquity:
the
dumb
ass
speaking
with
man’s
voice
forbad the
madness of the
prophet.

\VS{17}These
are
wells without
water,
clouds that are
carried
with a
tempest; to
whom the
mist of
darkness is
reserved
for
ever.

\VS{18}For when they
speak great
swelling
{\ADD{words}} of
vanity, they
allure
through the
lusts of the
flesh,
{\ADD{through much}}
wantonness, those that were
clean
escaped from them who
live
in
error.

\VS{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.

\VS{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.

\VS{21}For it had
been
better for
them
not to have
known the
way of
righteousness,
than, after they have
known
{\ADD{it}}, to
turn
from
the
holy
commandment
delivered unto
them.

\VS{22}But it is
happened unto
them according to
the
true
proverb, The
dog
{\ADD{is}}
turned
to his
own
vomit
again;
and the
sow that was
washed
to her
wallowing in the
mire.




\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
second
epistle,
beloved,
I
now
write unto
you;
in
{\ADD{both}}
which I stir
up
your
pure
minds by way
of
remembrance:

\VS{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:

\VS{3}Knowing
this
first,
that there shall
come
in
the
last
days
scoffers,
walking
after
their
own
lusts,

\VS{4}And
saying,
Where
is the
promise
of
his
coming?
for
since the
fathers fell
asleep, all
things
continue
as
{\ADD{they were}}
from the
beginning of the
creation.

\VS{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:

\VS{6}Whereby the
world that then
was, being
overflowed with
water,
perished:

\VS{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.

\VS{8}But,
beloved,
be
not ignorant
of
this one
thing,
that
one
day
{\ADD{is}}
with the
Lord
as a
thousand
years,
and a
thousand
years
as
one
day.

\VS{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.

\VS{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.

\VS{11}{\ADD{Seeing}}
then
{\ADD{that}}
all these
things shall be
dissolved, what
manner
{\ADD{of persons}}
ought
ye to
be
in
{\ADD{all}}
holy
conversation
and
godliness,

\VS{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?

\VS{13}Nevertheless
we, according
to
his
promise, look
for
new
heavens
and a
new
earth,
wherein
dwelleth
righteousness.

\VS{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.

\VS{15}And
account
{\ADD{that}} the
longsuffering
of
our
Lord
{\ADD{is}}
salvation; even
as
our
beloved
brother
Paul
also according
to the
wisdom
given unto
him hath
written unto
you;

\VS{16}As
also
in
all
{\ADD{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
{\ADD{they do}}
also the
other
scriptures,
unto
their
own
destruction.

\VS{17}Ye
therefore,
beloved, seeing ye
know
{\ADD{these things}}
before,
beware
lest ye
also, being led
away with the
error of the
wicked,
fall
from your
own
stedfastness.

\VS{18}But
grow
in
grace,
and
{\ADD{in}} the
knowledge
of
our
Lord
and
Saviour
Jesus
Christ. To
him
{\ADD{be}}
glory
both
now
and
for
ever.
Amen.


\par }