¹ Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, unto them who have obtained, equally precious, faith, with us, in the righteousness of our God, and Saviour Jesus Christ,

² Favour unto you, and peace, be multiplied, in the personal knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;—

³ As, all things, suited for life and godliness his divine power, unto us, hath given, through the personal knowledge of him that hath called us through glory and excellence,—

⁴ Through which, his precious, and very great, promises, have, unto us, been given, in order that, through these, ye might become sharers in a divine nature—escaping the corruption that is in the world by coveting.

⁵ And, for this very reason also—adding, on your part, all diligence, supply, in your faith, excellence, and, in your excellence, knowledge,

⁶ And, in your knowledge, self-control, and, in your self-control, endurance, and, in your endurance, godliness,

⁷ And, in your godliness, brotherly affection, and, in your brotherly affection, love.

⁸ These things, unto you, belonging and abounding, neither idle nor unfruitful, constitute you, regarding the personal knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁹ For, he to whom these things are not present, is, blind, seeing only what is near, having come, to forget, his purification from his old sins.

¹⁰ Wherefore, all the more, brethren, give diligence to be making, firm, your calling and election; for, these things, doing, in nowise shall ye stumble at any time,

¹¹ For, thus, shall richly be further supplied unto you—the entrance into the age-abiding kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹² Wherefore, I shall be certain to be, always, putting you in remembrance concerning these things,—although, indeed, ye know them, and have become confirmed in the present truth;

¹³ Right, nevertheless, I account it—as long as I am in this tent, to be stirring you up by putting you in remembrance,

¹⁴ Knowing that, speedy, is the putting off of my tent—even as, our Lord Jesus Christ also, made clear to me:

¹⁵ Yea, I will give diligence also, that, at every time, ye may be able, after my own departure, to be keeping up the remembrance of, these very things.

¹⁶ For, not as having followed, cleverly devised stories, made we known unto you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but as having been made, spectators, of his majesty.

¹⁷ For, when he received from God the Father honour and glory, a voice, being borne to him such as this, by the magnificent glory—My Son, the beloved, is, this, in whom, I, delight,

¹⁸ Even this voice, we, heard, when, out of heaven, it was borne, we being, with him, in the holy mount.

¹⁹ And we have, more firm, the prophetic word;—whereunto ye are doing, well, to take heed,—as unto a lamp shining in a dusky place,—until, day, shall dawn, and, a day-star, shall arise in your hearts:—

²⁰ Of this, first, taking note—that, no prophecy of scripture, becometh, self-solving;

²¹ For not, by will of man, was prophecy brought in, at any time, but, as, by Holy Spirit, they were borne along, spake, men, from God.