1 This lo the second epistle I write to you, my dearest, in which I stir up by admonition your sincere mind:
1 Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:
2 that you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy Prophets, and of your Apostles, of the precepts of our Lord and Saviour.
2 That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Savior.
3 Knowing this first, that in the last days shall come mockers in deceit, walking according to their own concupiscences,
3 Knowing this first, ¹that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 saying, Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things do so persevere from the beginning of creature.
4 Saying: ²Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For they are willfully ignorant of this, that the Heavens were before, and the earth, out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God:
5 For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.
6 by the which, that world then, being overflowed with water perished.
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
7 But the Heavens which now are, and the earth, are by the same word kept in store, reserved to fire unto the day of judgement and of the perdition of the impious men.
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 the ungodly men.
8 But this one thing be not ignorant of, my dearest, that one day with our Lord is as a thousand years, & a thousand years as one day.
8 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 Our Lord slacketh not his promise, as some do esteem it: but he doth patiently for you, not willing that any perish, but that all return to penance.
9 The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance.
10 And the day of our Lord shall come as a thief, in the which the Heavens shall pass with great violence, but the elements shall be resolved with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt.
10 ³But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt up.
11 Therefore whereas all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of men ought you to be in holy conversations and godlinesses,
11 Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?
12 expecting and hasting unto the coming of the day of our Lord, by which the Heavens burning shall be resolved, and the elements shall melt with the heat of fire?
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat?
13 But we expect new Heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice inhabiteth.
13 ⁴But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.
14 For the which cause, my dearest, expecting these things, labour earnestly to be found immaculate and unspotted to him in peace:
14 Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.
15 and the longanimity of our Lord, do ye account salvation, as also our most dear brother Paul according to the wisdom given him hath written to you:
15 ⁵And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:
16 as also in all epistles speaking in them of these things; in the which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable deprave, as also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own perdition.
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 You therefore, brethren, fore-knowing, take heed lest led aside by the error of the unwise you fall away from your own steadfastness.
17 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.