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Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

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.

For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

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.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

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.

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:

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

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:

But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man"s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.