The Ante-Nicene Bible Version Project - With Notes
(The King James Bible
Version Corrected)
2Peter
2Peter 1
1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus
Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (1):
2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3According as his divine power has given unto us all
things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who
has called us to glory and virtue:
4By which are given unto us exceedingly great and
precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to
your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6And to knowledge self control; and to self control
patience; and to patience godliness;
7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness love.
8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make
you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
9But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot
see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10Therefore rather, brethren, give diligence to make
your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never
fall:
11For so an entrance shall be provided unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12Therefore I will not be negligent to put you always
in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and are established in
the present truth.
13Yea, I think it right, as long as I am in this
tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14Knowing that shortly I must put off this my
tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.
15Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after
my departure to have these things always in remembrance.
16For we have not followed cunningly devised myths,
when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but
were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17For 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."
18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when
we were with him in the holy mount.
19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which
you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the
scripture is of one's own interpretation.
21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of
man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the holy spirit.
Note
1: „Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” instead of „God and Savior Jesus Christ”
appear in some of the ancient manuscripts and Bible verse quotations
(Sinaiticus, Aramaic, Sahidic Coptic, Vulgata + catena)
2Peter
2
1But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall secretly bring in
destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon
themselves swift destruction.
2And many shall follow their shameful ways; by reason
of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3And through covetousness shall they with false words
exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction
slumbers not.
4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but
cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be
reserved unto judgment;
5And spared not the ancient world, but saved Noah the
eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the
world of the ungodly;
6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into
ashes condemned them by a catastrophe, making them an example unto those that
later should live ungodly;
7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
behavior of the wicked:
8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in
seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their
unlawful deeds;) (2)
9The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the
lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Presumptuous are they, self-willed,
they are not afraid to speak evil of the glorious ones.
11Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might,
bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken
and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall
utterly perish in their own corruption;
13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as
they that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. Spots they are and
blemishes, reveling themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with
you;
14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease
from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
15Who have forsaken the right way, and are gone
astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;
16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb donkey
speaking with man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
17These are wells without water, clouds that are
carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.
18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that
have just escaped from them who live in error.
19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are
the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he
brought in bondage.
20For if after they have escaped the defilements of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than
the beginning.
21For it had been better for them not to have known
the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.
22But it is happened unto them according to the true
proverb, The dog has turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed
to her wallowing in the mire.
Note
2: Possibly an interpolated later commentary. Missing from Weymouth New
Testament.
2Peter
3
1This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you;
in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2That you may be mindful of the words which were
spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles
of the Lord and Savior:
3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last
days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4And 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.
5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the
word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water
and in the water:
6By which the world that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished:
7But the heavens and the earth, which now are, by the
same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
destruction of ungodly men.
8But, 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.
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some
men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burned up.
11Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and
godliness,
12Looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day
of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat?
13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for
new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such
things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and
blameless.
15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is
salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given
unto him has written unto you;
16As 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 twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto
their own destruction.
17You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things
beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked,
fall from your own steadfastness.
18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ
and of God the Father (3), to whom the glory is now
and always, even to the days of eternity. Amen.
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