THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PETER CHAPTER I.

[Peter, saluting the Christians, admonisheth them of the gifts and promises of the gospel, &c.]

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:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through 
the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto 
us all thing that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us 
to glory and virtue:
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. 
5 And besides this, giving all diligence, add to 
your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
6 And to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance,
patience; and to patience, godliness;
7 And to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to 
brotherly kindness, charity.
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.
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. 
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence 
to make your calling and election sure: for if ye 
do these things, ye shall never fall: 
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto 
you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our 
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 
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. 
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this 
tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in
remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my
tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath 
showed me. 
15 Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may be
able, after my disease, to have these things always
in remembrance.
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. 
17 For he received from God the Father honor
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. 
18 And this voice which came from heaven we 
heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. 
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:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the 
scripture is of any private interpretation. 
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.