1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to you who have obtained, through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, a faith equally precious with ours:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you, in the knowledge of God and our Lord Jesus.
3 As all things that pertain to life and godliness have been given to us by his divine power, through the knowledge of him who called us by his glory and excellence,
4 through which he has given us precious and great promises, so that through them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust;
5 You also, putting all diligence for this very thing, add virtue to your faith; to virtue, knowledge;
6 to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, patience; to patience, mercy;
7 to piety, brotherly affection; and to brotherly affection, love.
8 For if these things are in you and abound, they will not leave you idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he who does not have these things has very short sight; he is blind, having forgotten the purification of the former sins of him.
10 Therefore, brothers, try all the more to make your calling and election sure; because by doing these things, you will never fall.
11 For in this way you will be granted a wide and generous entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Therefore I will not fail to always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are confirmed in the present truth.
13 For I consider it right, while I am in this body, to awaken you with a warning;
14 knowing that I must soon leave the body, as our Lord Jesus Christ has declared to me.
15 I will also diligently see to it that after my departure you will be able to remember these things at all times.
16 For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ by clever fables, but as having seen his majesty with our own eyes.
17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, a voice came to him from the magnificent glory, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18 And we heard this voice sent from heaven, when we were with him on the holy mountain.
19 We also have the most certain prophetic word, to which you do well to pay attention as to a torch that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts;
20 understanding first this, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of private interpretation,
21 because prophecy was never brought about by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, and even deny the Lord who rescued them, bringing upon themselves sudden destruction.
2 And many will follow their debaucheries, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed,
3 and through greed they will make merchandise of you with false words. On such people, condemnation does not linger for a long time, and their destruction does not slumber.
4 For if God did not forgive the angels who sinned, but cast them into hell, he delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but he preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven other people, bringing the flood upon the world of the wicked;
6 and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, burning them to ashes and making them an example to those who would live wickedly,
7 and delivered the righteous Lot, overwhelmed by the wicked conduct of the wicked
8 (because this righteous
9 The Lord knows how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished on the day of judgment;
10 and especially to those who, following the flesh, walk in lust and uncleanness, and despise dominion. Bold and stubborn, they are not afraid to speak evil of higher powers,
11 while the angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not pronounce a curse against them before the Lord.
12 But these, speaking evil of things they do not understand, like irrational animals, born for prey and destruction, will perish in their own destruction,
13 receiving the reward of their injustice, since they delight in enjoying delights every day. These are filth and stains, who, even while they eat with you, revel in their errors.
14 Their eyes are full of adultery, they are not satisfied with sin, they seduce fickle souls, their hearts are accustomed to covetousness, and they are children of a curse.
15 They have left the straight path, and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the reward of wickedness,
16 and was rebuked for his iniquity; for a dumb beast of burden, speaking with a man’s voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.
17 These are fountains without water, and clouds driven by the storm; for whom the deepest darkness is reserved forever.
18 For speaking inflated and vain words, they seduce with lusts of the flesh and debauchery those who had truly fled from those who live in error.
19 They promise them freedom, and they themselves are slaves to corruption. Because he who is defeated by someone is made a slave of the one who defeated him.
20 Indeed, if, having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last state becomes worse than the first.
21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was given to them.
22 But what is true proverb has happened to them: The dog returns to its vomit, and the washed sow returns to wallowing in the mire.
1 Beloved, this is the second letter that I write to you, and in both I awaken with exhortation your pure understanding,
2 so that you may remember the words that were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior given by your apostles;
3 Knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will come, walking after their own lusts,
4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For from the day the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.
5 These willfully ignore that in ancient times the heavens were made by the word of God, and also the earth, which comes from water and subsists by water,
6 for which reason the world of that time perished, drowned in water;
7 But the heavens and the earth that now exist are reserved by the same word, kept for fire on the day of judgment and destruction of wicked men.
8 But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this: that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day.
9 The Lord is not slack in his promise, as some consider slack, but he is patient with us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the burning elements will be dissolved, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
11 Since all these things must be dissolved, how should you not walk in a holy and godly way of life,
12 waiting and hastening for the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens will be kindled and will be dissolved, and the heavens will be dissolved? elements, being burned, will melt!
13 But we wait, according to his promises, for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
14 Therefore, beloved, as you wait for these things, be diligent to be found by him blameless and blameless, in peace.
15 And know that the patience of our Lord is for salvation; just as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,
16 almost in all of his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which there are some that are difficult to understand, which the unlearned and unstable distort, as well as the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 Therefore, beloved, you, knowing beforehand, be on your guard, lest, carried away by the error of the wicked, you fall from your steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and until the day of eternity. Amen.
