1FROM Simeon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who share equally with us in the privileges of faith through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Grace and peace be yours in fullest measure, through knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Living in the last days
3GOD'S divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and true religion, through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
4In this way he has given us his promises, great beyond all price, so that through them you may escape the corruption with which lust has infected the world, and may come to share in the very being of God.
5With all this in view, you should make every effort to add virtue to your faith, knowledge to virtue,
6self-control to knowledge, fortitude to self-control, piety to fortitude,
7brotherly affection to piety, and love to brotherly affection.
8If you possess and develop these gifts, you will grow actively and effectively in knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9Whoever lacks them is wilfully blind; he has forgotten that his past sins were washed away.
10All the more then, my friends, do your utmost to establish that God has called and chosen you. If you do this, you will never stumble,
11and there will be rich provision for your entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12I shall keep reminding you of all this, although you know it and are well grounded in the truth you possess;
13yet I think it right to keep on reminding you as long as I still lodge in this body.
14I know I must soon leave it, as our Lord Jesus Christ told me.
15But I will do my utmost to ensure that after I am gone you will always be able to call these things to mind.
16It was not on tales, however cleverly concocted, that we relied when we told you about the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and his coming; rather with our own eyes we had witnessed his majesty.
17He was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and there came to him from the sublime Presence a voice which said: “This is my Son, my Beloved, on whom my favour rests.”
18We ourselves heard this voice when it came from heaven, for we were with him on the sacred mountain.
19All this confirms for us the message of the prophets, to which you will do well to attend; it will go on shining like a lamp in a murky place, until day breaks and the morning star rises to illuminate your minds.
20BUT first note this: no prophetic writing is a matter for private interpretation.
21It was not on any human initiative that prophecy came; rather, it was under the compulsion of the Holy Spirit that people spoke as messengers of God.
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