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+Title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Peter
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+Author: R F Weymouth
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+Book 61 2 Peter
+001:001 Simon Peter, a bondservant and Apostle of Jesus Christ:  To those
+        to whom there has been allotted the same precious faith
+        as that which is ours through the righteousness of our God
+        and of our Saviour Jesus Christ.
+001:002 May more and more grace and peace be granted to you in a full
+        knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
+001:003 seeing that His divine power has given us all things that are
+        needful for life and godliness, through our knowledge of Him
+        who has appealed to us by His own glorious perfections.
+001:004 It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious
+        and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may,
+        one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God,
+        having completely escaped the corruption which exists
+        in the world through earthly cravings.
+001:005 But for this very reason--adding, on your part, all earnestness--
+        along with your faith, manifest also a noble character:
+        along with a noble character, knowledge;
+001:006 along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control,
+        power of endurance;
+001:007 along with power of endurance, godliness; along with godliness,
+        brotherly affection; and along with brotherly affection, love.
+001:008 If these things exist in you, and continually increase,
+        they prevent your being either idle or unfruitful in advancing
+        towards a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
+001:009 For the man in whom they are lacking is blind and cannot see
+        distant objects, in that he has forgotten that he has been
+        cleansed from his old sins.
+001:010 For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest
+        to make sure that God has called you and chosen you;
+        for it is certain that so long as you practise these things,
+        you will never stumble.
+001:011 And so a triumphant admission into the eternal Kingdom of our
+        Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be freely granted to you.
+001:012 For this reason I shall always persist in reminding you
+        of these things, although you know them and are stedfast
+        believers in truth which you already possess.
+001:013 But I think it right, so long as I remain in the body,
+        my present dwelling-place, to arouse you by such reminders.
+001:014 For I know that the time for me to lay aside my body is now
+        rapidly drawing near, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has
+        revealed to me.
+001:015 So on every possible occasion I will also do my best to enable
+        you to recall these things after my departure.
+001:016 For when we made known to you the power and Coming of our
+        Lord Jesus Christ, we were not eagerly following cleverly
+        devised legends, but we had been eye-witnesses of His majesty.
+001:017 He received honour and glory from God the Father, and out
+        of the wondrous glory words such as these were spoken
+        to Him, "This is My dearly-loved Son, in whom I take delight."
+001:018 And we ourselves heard these words come from Heaven, when we
+        were with Him on the holy mountain.
+001:019 And in the written word of prophecy we have something
+        more permanent; to which you do well to pay attention--
+        as to a lamp shining in a dimly-lighted place--until day
+        dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
+001:020 But, above all, remember that no prophecy in Scripture will
+        be found to have come from the prophet's own prompting;
+001:021 for never did any prophecy come by human will, but men sent
+        by God spoke as they were impelled by the Holy Spirit.
+002:001 But there were also false prophets among the people,
+        as there will be teachers of falsehood among you also,
+        who will cunningly introduce fatal divisions, disowning even
+        the Sovereign Lord who has redeemed them, and bringing on
+        themselves swift destruction.
+002:002 And in their immoral ways they will have many eager disciples,
+        through whom religion will be brought into disrepute.
+002:003 Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk.
+        From of old their judgement has been working itself out,
+        and their destruction has not been slumbering.
+002:004 For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling
+        them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness,
+        keeping them in readiness for judgement.
+002:005 And He did not spare the ancient world, although He preserved Noah,
+        a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought
+        a deluge on the world of the ungodly.
+002:006 He reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah,
+        and condemned them to overthrow, making them an example
+        to people who might in future be living godless lives.
+002:007 But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross
+        misconduct of immoral men He rescued him.
+002:008 (For their lawless deeds were torture, day after day,
+        to the pure soul of that righteous man--all that he saw
+        and heard whilst living in their midst.)
+002:009 Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue godly men
+        from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous
+        under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement,
+002:010 and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--
+        craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control.
+        Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking
+        evil of glorious beings;
+002:011 while angels, though greater than they in might and power,
+        do not bring any insulting accusation against such in the presence
+        of the Lord.
+002:012 But these men, like brute beasts, created (with their
+        natural instincts) only to be captured or destroyed,
+        are abusive in matters of which they are ignorant, and in their
+        corruption will perish,
+002:013 being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt.
+        They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight.
+        They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously
+        at their love-feasts, and banqueting with you.
+002:014 Their very eyes are full of adultery--being eyes which never
+        cease from sin.  These men set traps to catch unstedfast
+        souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed.
+        They are fore-doomed to God's curse!
+002:015 Forsaking the straight road, they have gone astray,
+        having eagerly followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor,
+        who was bent on securing the wages of unrighteousness.
+002:016 But he was rebuked for his transgression:  a dumb ass spoke
+        with a human voice and checked the madness of the Prophet.
+002:017 These people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm,
+        men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved.
+002:018 For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk,
+        they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--
+        as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence
+        of those who live in error.
+002:019 And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves
+        the slaves of what is corrupt.  For a man is the slave of any
+        one by whom he has been worsted in fight.
+002:020 For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world
+        through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
+        people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome,
+        their last state has become worse than their first.
+002:021 For it would have been better for them not to have fully known
+        the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back
+        from the holy commandments in which they were instructed.
+002:022 Their case is that described in the true proverb, "A dog returns
+        to what he has vomited," and also in the other proverb,
+        "The sow has washed itself and now goes back to roll
+        in its filth."
+003:001 This letter which I am now writing to you, dear friends,
+        is my second letter.  In both my letters I seek to revive
+        in your honest minds the memory of certain things,
+003:002 so that you may recall the words spoken long ago by the holy Prophets,
+        and the commandments of our Lord and Saviour given you
+        through your Apostles.
+003:003 But, above all, remember that, in the last days, men will
+        come who make a mock at everything--men governed only by
+        their own passions,
+003:004 and, asking, "What has become of His promised Return?  For from
+        the time our forefathers fell asleep all things continue
+        as they have been ever since the creation of the world."
+003:005 For they are wilfully blind to the fact that there were heavens
+        which existed of old, and an earth, the latter arising
+        out of water and extending continuously through water,
+        by the command of God;
+003:006 and that, by means of these, the then existing race of men
+        was overwhelmed with water and perished.
+003:007 But the present heavens and the present earth are, by the command
+        of the same God, kept stored up, reserved for fire in preparation
+        for a day of judgement and of destruction for the ungodly.
+003:008 But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget.
+        With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand
+        years resemble one day.
+003:009 The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense
+        in which some men speak of slowness.  But He bears patiently
+        with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that
+        all should come to repentance.
+003:010 The day of the Lord will come like a thief--it will be a day
+        on which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise,
+        the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth
+        and all the works of man be utterly burnt up.
+003:011 Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution,
+        what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy
+        living and godly conduct,
+003:012 eagerly looking forward to the coming of the day of God,
+        by reason of which the heavens, all ablaze, will be destroyed,
+        and the elements will melt in the fierce heat?
+003:013 But in accordance with His promise we are expecting new heavens
+        and a new earth, in which righteousness will dwell.
+003:014 Therefore, dear friends, since you have these expectations,
+        earnestly seek to be found in His presence, free from blemish
+        or reproach, in peace.
+003:015 And always regard the patient forbearance of our Lord as salvation,
+        as our dear brother Paul also has written to you in virtue
+        of the wisdom granted to him.
+003:016 That is what he says in all his letters, when speaking in them
+        of these things.  In those letters there are some statements
+        hard to understand, which ill-taught and unprincipled
+        people pervert, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures,
+        to their own ruin.
+003:017 You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand,
+        must continually be on your guard so as not to be led
+        astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from
+        your own stedfastness.
+003:018 But be always growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
+        and Saviour Jesus Christ.  To Him be all glory, both now
+        and to the day of Eternity!
+
+
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