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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 full 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 full 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 become partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the World in lust.

5 And for this reason, 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 full 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, be diligent rather to make your calling and election sure: for doing these things, ye may never strumble:

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 shall 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 deem 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 also shall be diligent for ye to have, after my departure, to have these things always in remembrance.

16 For we having 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,
such a voice having been brought to him by the excellent glory,
This is My beloved Son, in whom I delighted. Mat 17:5

18 And this voice which having been brought 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 being 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 shall be false teachers among you, who shall privately bring in destructive heresies,
even denying the Master that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

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

3 And in covetousness they shall make with feigned words 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 impious;

6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow,
making them an example to those who are about to be impious.

7 And delivered righteous 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 works).

9 The Lord has known how to deliver the devout out of temptations,
and to keep 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 judgment against them before the Lord.

12 But these, as natural brute living beings, having been born for capture and corruption,
blaspheming in what they not understand; and shall be ruined in their own corruption:

13 they shall receiving the reward of unrighteousness, as they that deem 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,
having followed the way of Balaam the son of Bosor[Beor], who loved the reward of unrighteousness;

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

17 These are fountains without water, clouds that being carried by 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 full 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 letter, 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 sayings 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 shall 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, having been overflooded 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 the impious 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 deem 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 shall come as a thief in the night;
in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements, being burnt with heat shall be dissolved,
and 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 shall be dissolved, and the elements, being burnt with heat are melted?

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 deem 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 letters, 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!