The Second Epistle of PETER
The Modern Young's Literal Translation© 2005



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CHAPTER 1

1  Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
2  Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!
3  As His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) has given all things to us, through the acknowledgement of Him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
4  through which the most great and precious promises have been given to us, that through these you may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
5  And this same also -- having brought in all diligence besides, supplied in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
6  and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
7  and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
8  for these things being to you and abounding, do make [you] neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,
9  for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;
10  for what reason, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and choice steadfast, for doing these things, you may never stumble,
11  for so, richly shall be supplied to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12  For what reason, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,
13  and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding [you],
14  having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did show to me,
15  and I will be diligent that also you have at every time, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.
16  For, not having followed out skillfully devised fables, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having become eye-witnesses of his majesty --
17  for having received honor and glory from God the Father, such a voice being borne to Him by the excellent glory: `This is My Son -- the beloved, in whom I was well pleased;'
18  and this voice we -- we did hear, borne out of heaven, being with Him in the holy mount.
19  And we have the prophetic word more firm, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;
20  this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing does come of private exposition,
21  for not by will of man did prophecy ever come, but borne on by the Holy Spirit, holy men of God spoke.


CHAPTER 2

1  And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,
2  and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,
3  and in covetousness, with molded words, they shall make merchandise of you, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
4  For if God did not spare messengers who sinned, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast [them] down to Tartarus, did deliver [them] to judgment, having been reserved,
5  and did not spare the old world, but the eighth person, Noah, a preacher of righteousness, did keep, having brought a flood on the world of the impious,
6  and having turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, did condemn with an overthrow, an example to those about to be impious having set [them];
7  and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,
8  for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul was harassing with unlawful works.
9  The Lord has known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,
10  and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and despising lordship; presumptuous, self-complacent, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities,
11  whereas messengers, being greater in strength and power, do not bear an evil speaking judgment against them before the Lord;
12  and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,
13  about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, counting the luxury in the day pleasures, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,
14  having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,
15  having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the [son] of Bosor, who did love a reward of unrighteousness,
16  and had a rebuke of his own iniquity -- a dumb ass, having spoken in man's voice, did forbid the madness of the prophet.
17  These are wells without water, and clouds driven by a tempest, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age has been kept;
18  for overswellings speaking of vanity, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,
19  promising liberty to them, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one has been overcome, to this one also he has been brought to servitude,
20  for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and being entangled by these again, they have been overcome, the last things has become worse to them than the first,
21  for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged [it], to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,
22  and that of the true similitude has happened to them; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.'


CHAPTER 3

1  This, now, beloved, I write a second letter to you, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding [you],
2  to be mindful of the sayings said by the holy prophets before, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior,
3  this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, going on according to their own desires,
4  and saying, `Where is the promise of His presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'
5  for this is willingly unobserved by them, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,
6  through which the then world, having been deluged by water, was destroyed;
7  and the present heavens and the earth, are treasured by the same word, being kept for fire to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.
8  And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;
9  the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counseling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,
10  and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements be dissolved with burning heat, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
11  All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons does it necessitate you to be in holy behaviors and pious acts?
12  waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with burning heat;
13  and we do wait for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise, in which righteousness does dwell;
14  for what reason, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, to be found in peace by Him,
15  and count you the long-suffering of our Lord salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you,
16  as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.
17  You, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, for fear that, together with the error of the impious being led away, you may fall from your own steadfastness,
18  and increase you in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; to him [is] the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.



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