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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): 2 PETER ***
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+Book 61 2 Peter
+001:001 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
+        to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us
+        in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
+001:002 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God
+        and of Jesus our Lord,
+001:003 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things
+        that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge
+        of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
+001:004 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly
+        great promises; that through these you may become partakers
+        of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption
+        that is in the world by lust.
+001:005 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part
+        all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence;
+        and in moral excellence, knowledge;
+001:006 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience;
+        and in patience godliness;
+001:007 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly
+        affection, love.
+001:008 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not
+        idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
+001:009 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near,
+        having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
+001:010 Therefore, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where
+        context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers
+        and sisters" or "siblings."} be more diligent to make your
+        calling and election sure.  For if you do these things,
+        you will never stumble.
+001:011 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into
+        the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
+001:012 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things,
+        though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
+001:013 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you
+        up by reminding you;
+001:014 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly,
+        even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
+001:015 Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able
+        to remember these things even after my departure.
+001:016 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made
+        known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
+        but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
+001:017 For he received from God the Father honor and glory,
+        when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is
+        my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."{Matthew 17:5;
+        Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35}
+001:018 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him
+        on the holy mountain.
+001:019 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you
+        heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns,
+        and the morning star arises in your hearts:
+001:020 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is
+        of private interpretation.
+001:021 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man:  but holy men
+        of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
+002:001 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false
+        teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in
+        destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them,
+        bringing on themselves swift destruction.
+002:002 Many will follow their immoral{TR reads "destructive"
+        instead of "immoral"} ways, and as a result, the way of the truth
+        will be maligned.
+002:003 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words:
+        whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their
+        destruction will not slumber.
+002:004 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast
+        them down to Tartarus{Tartarus is another name for Hell},
+        and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
+002:005 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with
+        seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought
+        a flood on the world of the ungodly;
+002:006 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes,
+        condemned them to destruction, having made them an example
+        to those who would live ungodly;
+002:007 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful
+        life of the wicked
+002:008 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented
+        in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and
+        hearing lawless deeds):
+002:009 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to
+        keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
+002:010 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement,
+        and despise authority.  Daring, self-willed, they are not
+        afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
+002:011 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring
+        a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
+002:012 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be
+        taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they
+        are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
+002:013 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count
+        it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes,
+        reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
+002:014 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin;
+        enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed;
+        children of cursing;
+002:015 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way
+        of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing;
+002:016 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience.  A mute donkey spoke
+        with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
+002:017 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm;
+        for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
+002:018 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice
+        in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are
+        indeed escaping from those who live in error;
+002:019 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants
+        of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by
+        whoever overcomes him.
+002:020 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world
+        through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
+        they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state
+        has become worse for them than the first.
+002:021 For it would be better for them not to have known the way
+        of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from
+        the holy commandment delivered to them.
+002:022 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb,
+        "The dog turns to his own vomit again,"{Proverbs 26:11}
+        and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
+003:001 This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you;
+        and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
+003:002 that you should remember the words which were spoken before
+        by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles
+        of the Lord and Savior:
+003:003 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come,
+        walking after their own lusts,
+003:004 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming?  For, from the day
+        that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they
+        were from the beginning of the creation."
+003:005 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from
+        of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water,
+        by the word of God;
+003:006 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed
+        with water, perished.
+003:007 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word
+        have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day
+        of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
+003:008 But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day
+        is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years
+        as one day.
+003:009 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness;
+        but is patient with us, not wishing 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 which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,
+        and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat,
+        and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
+003:011 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this,
+        what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
+003:012 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God,
+        which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved,
+        and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
+003:013 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a
+        new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
+003:014 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things,
+        be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless
+        in his sight.
+003:015 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved
+        brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him,
+        wrote to you;
+003:016 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things.
+        In those, there are some things that are hard to understand,
+        which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do
+        to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
+003:017 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand,
+        beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked,
+        you fall from your own steadfastness.
+003:018 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and
+        Savior Jesus Christ.  To him be the glory both now
+        and forever.  Amen.
+
+
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