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For these things being in you, and abounding, they will make you not idle, not unfruitful in the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the one in whom these things are not present is blind, being shortsighted, taking on forgetfulness of the cleansing of his sins in time past.

Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make sure of your calling and election; for doing these things, you will not ever fall.

For so will be richly furnished to you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

For this reason I will not neglect to cause you to remember always concerning these things, though you know and have been confirmed in the present truth.

For not following fables which had been cleverly devised, but having become eyewitnesses of the majesty of Jesus Christ, we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord.

For receiving honor and glory from God the Father such a voice being borne to Him from the magnificent glory, "This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have been delighted," Psa. 2:7; Gen. 22:2; Isa. 42:1; Matt. 17:5

for prophecy was not at any time borne by the will of man, but being borne along by the Holy Spirit, holy men of God spoke.

And by covetousness, with well-turned words, they will use you for gain, for whom judgment of old does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

For if God did not spare sinning angels, but delivered them to chains of darkness, thrust down into Tartarus, having been kept to judgment;

For that righteous one living among them day after day, in seeing and in hearing, his righteous soul was tormented with their lawless deeds.

But the Lord knows to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unjust for a day of judgment, being punished,

But these as unreasoning natural beasts, having been born for capture and corruption, speaking evil in that of which they are ignorant, they shall utterly perish in their corruption,

These are springs without water, clouds being driven by tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept to the ages.

For speaking over-swollen words of vanity, by the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lusts, they allure those indeed escaping, the ones walking in error,

promising to them freedom, though themselves being slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.

For if by a recognition of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, they have escaped the defilements of the world, and again being entangled they have been overcome by these, then their last things have become worse than the first.

For it was better for them not to have recognized the way of righteousness than having recognized it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For from which time the fathers fell asleep, all things remain so from the beginning of creation.

For this is hidden from them by their willing it so , that heavens were of old, and earth by water, and through water, having subsisted by the Word of God,