Today’s
Reading: 2Peter 1 - 3 (KJV)
2Peter 1
2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a
servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like
precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ:
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto
us all things that pertain unto life and
godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and
virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to
your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to
temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound,
they make you that ye shall neither be
barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh
these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was
purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give
diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye
shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto
you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.
2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you
always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2Pe 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this
tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you
in remembrance;
2Pe 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ
hath showed me.
2Pe 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able
after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised
fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour
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.
2Pe 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we
heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day
star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the
Scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the
will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2Peter 1
2Pe 2:1 But there were false
prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among
you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift
destruction.
2Pe 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways;
by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth
not.
2Pe 2:4 For 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;
2Pe 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah
the eighth person, a preacher of
righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2Pe 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
into ashes condemned them with an
overthrow, making them an example unto
those that after should live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked:
2Pe 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them,
in seeing and hearing, vexed his
righteous soul from day to day with their
unlawful deeds);
2Pe 2:9 The Lord knoweth
how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the
day of judgment to be punished:
2Pe 2:10 But chiefly 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 dignities.
2Pe 2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power
and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
2Pe 2:12 But 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;
2Pe 2:13 And shall receive the reward of
unrighteousness, as they that count it
pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they
are and blemishes, sporting themselves
with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot
cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with
covetous practices; cursed children:
2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are
gone astray, following the way of Balaam the
son of Bosor,
who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2Pe 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb
ass speaking with man’s voice forbade the madness of the prophet.
2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that
are carried with a tempest: to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.
2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of
the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped
from them who live in error.
2Pe 2:19 While 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.
2Pe 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions
of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they
are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them
than the beginning.
2Pe 2:21 For 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.
2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the
true proverb, The dog is turned to his
own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
2Peter 3
2Pe 3:1 This second epistle,
beloved, I now write unto you; in both
which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2Pe 3:2 That ye 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 Saviour:
2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in
the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4 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.
2Pe 3:5 For 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:
2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being
overflowed with water, perished.
2Pe 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now,
by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of
judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2Pe 3:8 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.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that
any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief
in the night; in the 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.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing
then that all these things shall be
dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of
the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness.
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for
such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot,
and blameless.
2Pe 3:15 And account that
the longsuffering of our Lord is
salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given
unto him hath written unto you;
2Pe 3:16 As 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 wrest, as they do
also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these
things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the
wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ. To him be glory both now and
forever. Amen.