1 SYMEON PETER, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our: God and Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of: God and of Jesus our: Lord;
3 since his divine: power hath granted to us all things unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us through glory and virtue;
4 whereby he hath granted us the precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your: faith supply: virtue; and in: virtue: knowledge;
6 and in: knowledge: self-control; and in self-control: patience; and in: patience: godliness;
7 and in: godliness brotherly: kindness; and in your brotherly: kindness: love.
8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our: Lord Jesus Christ.
9 For who lacketh these is blind, short-sighted, having forgotten the cleansing from his old: sins.
10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for in doing these ye shall never stumble:
11 for thus shall be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our: Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I shall be ready always to remind you of these things, though ye know and are established in the truth which is with you.
13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this: tabernacle, to stir you up by reminder;
14 knowing that the putting off of my: tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our: Lord Jesus Christ also showed me.
The Experience of the Transfiguration
15 Yea, I will give diligence that at each time ye be able after my: decease to call these things to remembrance.
16 For not by following cunningly devised fables, made we known to you the power and presence of our: Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of HIS: majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when such a voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my: beloved: Son, in whom I am well pleased:
18 and this: voice WE heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 And we have the word of prophecy more sure; whereto ye do well to take heed, as to a lamp shining in a murky place, until day dawn, and the day-star arise in your: hearts:
20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of its own interpretation.
21 For no prophecy was ever borne by man’s will; but men spake from God, being borne on by the Holy Spirit.