SPACE 1/SPACE - Library 1 - Volume 1.iso/misc~1/344/ii_peter

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                        II PETER 1
 1:1  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:
 1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
 1:3  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:
 1:4  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.
 1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith
virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
 1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;
and to patience godliness;
 1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity.
 1:8  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.
 1:9  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see
afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old
sins.
 1:10  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make
your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye
shall never fall:
 1:11  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ.
 1:12  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.
 1:13  Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this
tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;
 1:14  Knowing that shortly I must put off [this] my
tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.
 1:15  Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my
decease to have these things always in remembrance.
 1:16  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.
 1:17  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.
 1:18  And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we
were with him in the holy mount.
 1:19  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:
 1:20  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is
of any private interpretation.
 1:21  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.

                        II PETER 2
 2:1  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.
 2:2  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of
whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
 2:3  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.
 2:4  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;
 2:5  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;
 2:6  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;
 2:7  And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked:
 2:8  (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing
and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with
[their] unlawful deeds;)
 2:9  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment
to be punished:
 2:10  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.
 2:11  Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might,
bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
 2:12  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;
 2:13  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;
 2:14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from
sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised
with covetous practices; cursed children:
 2:15  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;
 2:16  But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking
with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
 2:17  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried
with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for
ever.
 2:18  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.
 2:19  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.
 2:20  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.
 2:21  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.
 2:22  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.

                        II PETER 3
 3:1  This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in
[both] which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
 3:2  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:
 3:3  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last
days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
 3:4  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.
 3:5  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:
 3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with
water, perished:
 3:7  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.
 3:8  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.
 3:9  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.
 3:10  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.
 3:11  [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be
dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all]
holy conversation and godliness,
 3:12  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?
 3:13  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
 3:14  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things,
be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot,
and blameless.
 3:15  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;
 3:16  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.
 3:17  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.
 3:18  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.