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¹ Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:² Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the acknowledgment of God and of Jesus our Lord!³ As His divine power has given to us all things pertaining to life and piety, through the acknowledgment of Him who called us through glory and virtue,⁴ through which the most great and precious promises have been given to us, that through these you may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption [and] lust in the world.

⁵ And [for] this same [reason] also, having brought in all diligence, supplement your faith with virtue, and with virtue—knowledge,⁶ and with knowledge—self-control, and with self-control—endurance, and with endurance—piety,⁷ and with piety—brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness—love;⁸ for these things being in you and abounding, make [you] neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ,⁹ for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;¹⁰ therefore, rather, brothers, be diligent to make steadfast your calling and [divine] selection, for doing these things you may never stumble;¹¹ in this way the entrance into the continuous kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplemented to you.

¹² Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you about these things, although you have known [them] and have been established in the present truth,¹³ and I think right, so long as I am in this tent, to stir you up in reminding [you],¹⁴ having known that the laying aside of my tent is soon, even as our Lord Jesus Christ also showed to me.¹⁵ And I will also be diligent [to ensure] that you always have a remembrance to make of these things after my departure.

¹⁶ For having not followed out skillfully devised fables, we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having become eyewitnesses of His majesty—¹⁷ for having received honor and glory from God the Father, such a voice being borne to Him by the Excellent Glory: "This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I delighted";¹⁸ and we heard this voice borne out of Heaven, being with Him at the holy mountain.

¹⁹ And we have a more firm prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day may dawn, and [the] morning star may arise in your hearts;²⁰ knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Writing comes of private exposition,²¹ for prophecy never came by [the] will of man, but men spoke from God, being brought by the Holy Spirit.