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1 Scroll 30 Second Epistle of Peter.
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
to them that have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

2 Grace and peace may be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

3 according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of Him who having called us through glory and virtue:

4 whereby are given to us the greatest and precious promises;
that by these ye may be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the World in lust.

5 And besides this, having applied all diligence, supply 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 love; and to brotherly love, love.

8 For these things being in you, and abounding, they make you neither be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 For in whom these things are not present, he is blind, being short-sighted, having taken on forgetfulness of the purification from his old sins.

10 Therefore brethren, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure: for doing these things, ye may never fall:

11 for so an entrance shall be supplied to you richly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

12 Therefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance,
of these things although ye know them, and are established in the present Truth.

13 Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this Tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

14 knowing that it is shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

15 But I will also endeavour for ye to have, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,
when we made known to you the power and Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but were eye-witnesses of His majesty.

17 For He having 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 delighted. Mat 17:5

18 And this voice which came from Heaven we heard, when we being with Him on the Holy Mount.

19 And we have more steadfast the prophetic word; to which ye do well that ye taking heed,
as to a lamp that shining in a dark place, until the day should 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 prophecy was not borne at any time by the will of man: but Holy men[Saints] of God spoke: being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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1 But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there will be false teachers among you, who will privately bring in destructive heresies,
even denying the Master that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2 And many will follow their destructive ways; by reason of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

3 And in covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you:
whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

4 For if God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus,
and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;

5 and spared not the ancient World, but saved the eighth, Noah a preacher of righteousness,
bringing the flood upon the World of the ungodly;

6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow,
making them an example to those that afterwards should live ungodly.

7 And delivered just Lot, being oppressed by the lascivious behaviour of the lawless:

8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them,
in seeing and hearing, grieved his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds).

9 The Lord has known how to deliver the devout out of temptations,
and to reserve the unjust being punished for the Day of Judgment:

10 but especially them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.
Presumptuous are they, self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of glories.

11 Whereas Angels, who being greater in power and might, bring no blasphemous accusation against them before the Lord.

12 But these, as natural brute animals, made to be taken and destroyed,
blaspheming in what they not understand; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption:

13 they shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure in the day-time to riot.
They are spots and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feasting with you;

14 having eyes full of adultery, and cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls:
they having a heart exercised covetousnesses; cursed children:

15 who have forsaken the straight way, and gone astray,
following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor[Beor], who loved the reward of unrighteousness;

16 but was rebuked for his lawlessness: the dumb she-ass speaking with man's voice, forbad the prophet's madness.

17 These are fountains without water, clouds that being carried with a storm; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh,
through lasciviousnesses, those that had indeed escaped from them who walking in error.

19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption:
for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he brought into bondage.

20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the World by the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled in them, and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.

21 For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than, after they have known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment delivered to them.

22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb,
The dog having turned back to his own vomit; Pro 26:11
and, The sow that having bathed, to her wallowing in the mire.

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1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you;
in both which I stir up your pure mind in a reminder:

2 that ye may be mindful of the words which were said you before by the Holy prophets,
and of the Commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

3 knowing this first, that there will come in the Last Days mockers, walking after their own lusts,

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.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that Heavens were of old,
and the earth consisting out of water and through water subsisting by the Word of GOD:

6 by which the World that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

7 But the Heavens and the Earth, which are now, by the same word being kept in store,
preserved to fire against a Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

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.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning the promise, as some men count slackness;
but is patience towards us, not willing that any to perish, but that all to come to repentance.

10 But the Day of the LORD will Come as a thief in the night;
in which the Heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements melting with fervent heat,
the Earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

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Therefore all these things being dissolved,
what manner of men ought ye to be in Holy behaviours and godliness,

12 looking for and hastening to the Coming of the Day of God,
in which the Heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements melting with fervent heat?

13 But according to His promise, we look for New Heavens and a New Earth, in which dwells righteousness. Isa 65:17 Rev 21:1

14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found by Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

15 And account that the endurance of our Lord is Salvation;
even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom that was given to him, has written to you;

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, to their own destruction.

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Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye knowing beforehand, beware,
lest ye being led away with the error of the lawless, ye may fall from your own steadfastness.

18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory both now and the Day of Eternity. Amen!