If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of II Peter
Chapter 1
001:001 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:
001:002 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through
the knowledge
of God, and of Jesus
our Lord,
001:003 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:
001:004 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.
001:005 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to
your faith
virtue; and to virtue
knowledge;
001:006 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and
to patience
godliness;
001:007 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness
charity.
001:008 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.
001:009 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and
cannot see afar
off, and hath
forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
001:010 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence
to make your
calling and election
sure: for if ye do these things, ye
shall
never fall:
001:011 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you
abundantly
into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus
Christ.
001:012 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.
001:013 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this
tabernacle, to
stir you up by
putting you in remembrance;
001:014 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my
tabernacle, even
as our Lord Jesus
Christ hath shewed me.
001:015 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able
after my decease
to have these
things always in remembrance.
001:016 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.
001:017 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.
001:018 And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were
with him in the holy
mount.
001:019 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:
001:020 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the
scripture is of
any private
interpretation.
001:021 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.
002:001 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.
002:002 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by
reason of whom
the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.
002:003 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.
002:004 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;
002:005 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;
002:006 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;
002:007 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of
the wicked:
002:008 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in
seeing and
hearing, vexed his
righteous soul from day to day with
their
unlawful deeds;)
002:009 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations,
and to reserve the
unjust unto the day of judgment to
be
punished:
002:010 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.
002:011 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and
might, bring
not railing
accusation against them before the Lord.
002:012 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;
002:013 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;
002:014 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot
cease from sin;
beguiling unstable
souls: an heart they have exercised
with
covetous practices; cursed
children:
002:015 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;
002:016 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
speaking with
man's voice forbad
the madness of the prophet.
002:017 These are wells without water, clouds that are
carried with a
tempest; to whom
the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
002:018 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.
002:019 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.
002:020 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.
002:021 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.
002:022 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.
003:001 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto
you; in both
which I stir up your
pure minds by way of remembrance:
003:002 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:
003:003 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the
last days
scoffers, walking after
their own lusts,
003:004 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.
003:005 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:
003:006 Whereby the world that then was, being
overflowed with water,
perished:
003:007 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.
003:008 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.
003:009 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.
003:010 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.
003:011 Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved, what
manner of persons
ought ye to be in all holy conversation
and
godliness,
003:012 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?
003:013 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look
for new
heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
003:014 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such
things, be
diligent that ye may be
found of him in peace, without
spot,
and blameless.
003:015 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;
003:016 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.
003:017 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.
003:018 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.