¹Simon Peter, a  ²slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to  ³those who have been  ⁴allotted  ⁵faith  ⁶equally precious as  ⁷ours  ⁸in the  ⁹righteousness of our  ¹⁰God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

 ¹Grace to you and peace be  ²multiplied  ³in the full  ⁴knowledge of God and of  ⁵Jesus our Lord;

Seeing that His  ¹divine power has  ²granted to us  ³all things which relate to  ⁴life and  ⁵godliness,  ⁶through the  ⁷full knowledge of  ⁸Him who has called us  ⁹by His own  ¹⁰glory and  ¹¹virtue,

 ¹Through  ²which He has granted to us precious and  ³exceedingly great promises that through  ⁴these you might become partakers of the divine nature,  ⁵having escaped the  ⁶corruption which is in the world  ⁷by lust.

And for this very reason also,  ¹adding all diligence,  ²supply bountifully in your  ³faith  ⁴virtue; and in virtue,  ⁵knowledge;

And in knowledge,  ¹self-control; and in self-control,  ²endurance; and in endurance,  ³godliness;

And in godliness,  ¹brotherly love; and in brotherly love,  ²love.

For  ¹these things,  ²existing in you and  ³abounding,  ⁴constitute you neither  ⁵idle nor  ⁶unfruitful  ⁷unto the full  ⁸knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For he in whom  ¹these things are not present is blind, being  ²shortsighted,  ³having forgotten the cleansing of his past sins.

 ¹Therefore, brothers, be the more diligent to  ²make your calling and selection firm, for doing  ³these things you shall by no means ever stumble.

For in this way the entrance into the  ¹eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly and bountifully  ²supplied to you.

Therefore I will be ready always to remind you concerning these things, even though you know them and have been established in the  ¹present truth.

And I consider it right, as long as I am in this  ¹tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder,

Knowing that the  ¹putting off of my tabernacle is imminent, even as  ²also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

Moreover I will also be diligent that you may be able, after my  ¹exodus, to bring these things to mind at all times.

For we did not  ¹follow cleverly devised  ²myths when we made known to you the power and  ³coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we became  ⁴eyewitnesses of that One's  ⁵majesty.

For He received from God the Father honor and glory, a voice such as this being  ¹borne to Him by the  ²magnificent glory: This is My Son, My Beloved, in whom I delight.

And this voice we heard being borne out of heaven while we were with Him in the holy mountain.

 ¹And we have the prophetic word made more firm, to which you do well to give heed as to a  ²lamp shining in a  ³dark place, until the  ⁴day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of  ¹one's own  ²interpretation;

 ¹For no prophecy was ever  ²borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God while being  ²borne by the Holy Spirit.

 ¹But there arose also false prophets among the people, as also among you there will be false teachers, who will  ²secretly bring in destructive  ³heresies, even denying the  ⁴Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift  ⁵destruction.

And many will  ¹follow their licentiousness, because of whom the  ²way of the truth will be reviled.

And in covetousness, with fabricated words, they will make merchandise of you, for whom the  ¹judgment  ²of old is not idle, and their  ³destruction does not slumber.

For if God did not spare the  ¹angels who sinned but delivered them to gloomy pits, having cast them down to  ²Tartarus, they being kept  ³for  ⁴judgment;

And did not spare the ancient world but guarded Noah, a herald of  ¹righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

And having reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, condemned them to  ¹ruin, having set them as an example to those who intend to  ²live an ungodly life,

And rescued righteous Lot, who had been oppressed by the licentious  ¹manner of life of the  ²lawless

(For that righteous man, who settled down among them, in seeing and hearing tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works);

The Lord knows how to deliver the  ¹godly out of trial and how to keep the  ²unrighteous under punishment  ³for the  ⁴day of  ⁵judgment,

And especially  ¹those who go after the flesh in the lust for defilement and despise  ²lordship. Daring,  ³self-willed, they do not tremble while reviling  ⁴dignities;

Whereas  ¹angels, though they are greater in strength and power,  ²do not bring a reviling judgment against  ¹them before the Lord.

But these, like  ¹animals  ²without reason, born natural  ³for capture and  ⁴destruction, reviling in things of which they are ignorant, will also in their corrupting of others be  ⁵destroyed;

 ¹Suffering unrighteousness as the  ²wages of unrighteousness; considering luxury in the day to be pleasure;  ³spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceits while feasting together with you;

Having eyes full of  ¹adultery and not ceasing from sin; enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised for covetousness, children of curse.

Forsaking the  ¹straight way, they have gone astray,  ²following the way of  ³Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness

But had reproof for his own transgression: a dumb  ¹beast of burden, uttering with a man's voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.

These are  ¹springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the  ²gloom of darkness is kept.

For uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice by lusts of the flesh, with licentiousness, those who are barely escaping from them who  ¹live in error;

Promising freedom to them, while they themselves are slaves of  ¹corruption; for by whom anyone has been defeated,  ²by this one he has been enslaved.

For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ but having again been entangled in these, they are defeated, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

For it would be better for them not to have known the  ¹way of righteousness than, knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: The  ¹dog has turned  ²to its own vomit, and the washed sow to wallowing in the mud.

This second letter, beloved, I now write to you; in them both I stir up your sincere mind with a reminder,

So that you would remember the  ¹words spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior preached by your apostles;

Knowing this first, that in the  ¹last of days  ²mockers will come with mocking, going on according to their own lusts

And saying, Where is the  ¹promise of His  ²coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue in this way from the beginning of creation.

For  ¹this escapes them by their own choosing, that by the  ²word of God the  ³heavens were of old and the  ³earth was  ⁴compacted out of water and through water,

Through  ¹which the  ²world  ³then, being  ⁴flooded with water,  ⁵perished.

But the heavens and the earth  ¹now, by the  ²same word, have been stored up for  ³fire, being kept unto the day of  ⁴judgment and  ⁵destruction of  ⁶ungodly men.

But do not let this one thing  ¹escape you, beloved, that with the Lord  ²one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.

The Lord  ¹does not delay regarding the promise, as  ²some count  ³delay, but is  ⁴long-suffering toward you, not intending that any  ⁵perish but that  ⁶all advance to  ⁷repentance.

But the  ¹day of the Lord will  ²come as a thief, in  ³which the  ⁴heavens will pass away with a  ⁵roar, and the  ⁶elements, burning with intense heat, will be  ⁷dissolved, and the earth and the  ⁸works in it will be  ⁷burned up.

Since  ¹all these things  ²are to be thus dissolved, what kind of persons ought you to be  ³in holy manner of life and godliness,

 ¹Expecting and hastening the  ²coming of the  ³day of God, on account of  ⁴which the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements, burning with intense heat, are to be melted away?

But according to His  ¹promise we are expecting  ²new heavens and a new earth, in which  ³righteousness  ⁴dwells.

Therefore, beloved, since you expect these things, be diligent to be  ¹found by Him in peace  ²without spot and without blemish;

And  ¹count the  ²long-suffering of our Lord to be  ³salvation, even as  ⁴also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

As also in  ¹all his letters, speaking in them concerning  ²these things, in which some things are hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable  ³twist, as also the  ²rest of the Scriptures, to their own  ⁴destruction.

You therefore, beloved, since you know these things beforehand,  ¹be on your guard lest being  ²carried away by the error of the  ³lawless, you  ⁴fall from your own steadfastness.

But  ¹grow in the  ²grace and  ³knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  ⁴To Him be the glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.