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diff --git a/old/7999-h/book61.htm b/old/7999-h/book61.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4034f08 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/7999-h/book61.htm @@ -0,0 +1,266 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>Book 61</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} +h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {color:#A82C28} +blockquote {font-size:14pt} +P {font-size:16pt} +--> +</style> +</head> +<body> + +<center> +<table summary="book61"> +<tr><td> +<a href="book60.htm">Previous</a> <a href="contents.htm">Home</a> <a href="book62.htm">Next</a> + + +<h1>Book 61 2 Peter</h1> + +<p>61:001:001 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them<br> + that have obtained like precious faith with us through the<br> + righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:</p> + +<p>61:001:002 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge<br> + of God, and of Jesus our Lord,</p> + +<p>61:001:003 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things<br> + that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of<br> + him that hath called us to glory and virtue:</p> + +<p>61:001:004 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious<br> + promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine<br> + nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world<br> + through lust.</p> + +<p>61:001:005 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith<br> + virtue; and to virtue knowledge;</p> + +<p>61:001:006 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and<br> + to patience godliness;</p> + +<p>61:001:007 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness<br> + charity.</p> + +<p>61:001:008 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that<br> + ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of<br> + our Lord Jesus Christ.</p> + +<p>61:001:009 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar<br> + off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.</p> + +<p>61:001:010 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your<br> + calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall<br> + never fall:</p> + +<p>61:001:011 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly<br> + into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus<br> + Christ.</p> + +<p>61:001:012 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in<br> + remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be<br> + established in the present truth.</p> + +<p>61:001:013 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to<br> + stir you up by putting you in remembrance;</p> + +<p>61:001:014 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even<br> + as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.</p> + +<p>61:001:015 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease<br> + to have these things always in remembrance.</p> + +<p>61:001:016 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we<br> + made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus<br> + Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.</p> + +<p>61:001:017 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when<br> + there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This<br> + is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.</p> + +<p>61:001:018 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were<br> + with him in the holy mount.</p> + +<p>61:001:019 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do<br> + well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark<br> + place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your<br> + hearts:</p> + +<p>61:001:020 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of<br> + any private interpretation.</p> + +<p>61:001:021 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but<br> + holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.</p> + +<p>61:002:001 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as<br> + there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall<br> + bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought<br> + them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.</p> + +<p>61:002:002 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom<br> + the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.</p> + +<p>61:002:003 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make<br> + merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time<br> + lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.</p> + +<p>61:002:004 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them<br> + down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to<br> + be reserved unto judgment;</p> + +<p>61:002:005 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth<br> + person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood<br> + upon the world of the ungodly;</p> + +<p>61:002:006 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes<br> + condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto<br> + those that after should live ungodly;</p> + +<p>61:002:007 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of<br> + the wicked:</p> + +<p>61:002:008 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and<br> + hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their<br> + unlawful deeds;)</p> + +<p>61:002:009 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations,<br> + and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be<br> + punished:</p> + +<p>61:002:010 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of<br> + uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they,<br> + selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.</p> + +<p>61:002:011 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring<br> + not railing accusation against them before the Lord.</p> + +<p>61:002:012 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and<br> + destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not;<br> + and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;</p> + +<p>61:002:013 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that<br> + count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and<br> + blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while<br> + they feast with you;</p> + +<p>61:002:014 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;<br> + beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with<br> + covetous practices; cursed children:</p> + +<p>61:002:015 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,<br> + following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the<br> + wages of unrighteousness;</p> + +<p>61:002:016 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with<br> + man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.</p> + +<p>61:002:017 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a<br> + tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.</p> + +<p>61:002:018 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they<br> + allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much<br> + wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live<br> + in error.</p> + +<p>61:002:019 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the<br> + servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the<br> + same is he brought in bondage.</p> + +<p>61:002:020 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world<br> + through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,<br> + they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end<br> + is worse with them than the beginning.</p> + +<p>61:002:021 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of<br> + righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from<br> + the holy commandment delivered unto them.</p> + +<p>61:002:022 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,<br> + The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was<br> + washed to her wallowing in the mire.</p> + +<p>61:003:001 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both<br> + which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:</p> + +<p>61:003:002 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before<br> + by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the<br> + apostles of the Lord and Saviour:</p> + +<p>61:003:003 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days<br> + scoffers, walking after their own lusts,</p> + +<p>61:003:004 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the<br> + fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the<br> + beginning of the creation.</p> + +<p>61:003:005 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of<br> + God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the<br> + water and in the water:</p> + +<p>61:003:006 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,<br> + perished:</p> + +<p>61:003:007 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word<br> + are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of<br> + judgment and perdition of ungodly men.</p> + +<p>61:003:008 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day<br> + is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as<br> + one day.</p> + +<p>61:003:009 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men<br> + count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing<br> + that any should perish, but that all should come to<br> + repentance.</p> + +<p>61:003:010 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in<br> + the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and<br> + the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and<br> + the works that are therein shall be burned up.</p> + +<p>61:003:011 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what<br> + manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and<br> + godliness,</p> + +<p>61:003:012 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,<br> + wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the<br> + elements shall melt with fervent heat?</p> + +<p>61:003:013 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new<br> + heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.</p> + +<p>61:003:014 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be<br> + diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot,<br> + and blameless.</p> + +<p>61:003:015 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation;<br> + even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom<br> + given unto him hath written unto you;</p> + +<p>61:003:016 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things;<br> + in which are some things hard to be understood, which they<br> + that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the<br> + other scriptures, unto their own destruction.</p> + +<p>61:003:017 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before,<br> + beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the<br> + wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.</p> + +<p>61:003:018 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and<br> + Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever.<br> + Amen.</p> + + +<a href="book60.htm">Previous</a> <a href="contents.htm">Home</a> <a href="book62.htm">Next</a> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + +</body> +</html> |