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            2 Peter English Standard Version (ESV)

chapter 1

     Greeting

     1Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing

     with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

     2May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

     Make Your Calling and Election Sure

     3His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him

     who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4by which he has granted to us his precious and very great

     promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the

     corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. 5For this very reason, make every effort to

     supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6and knowledge with self-control, and

     self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7and godliness with brotherly affection,

     and brotherly affection with love. 8For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from

     being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9For whoever lacks these qualities is

     so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 10Therefore,

     brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you

     will never fall. 11For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of

     our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

     12Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in

     the truth that you have. 13I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,

     14since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. 15And

     I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.

     Christ's Glory and the Prophetic Word

     16For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our

     Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17For when he received honor and glory from

     God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I

     am well pleased," 18we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy

     mountain. 19And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay

     attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

     20knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. 21For no

     prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the

     Holy Spirit.

chapter 2

     False Prophets and Teachers

     1But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will

     secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves

     swift destruction. 2And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be

     blasphemed. 3And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is

     not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

     4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of

     gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; 5if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a

     herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6if by

     turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an

     example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by

     the sensual conduct of the wicked 8(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was

     tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); 9then the Lord knows how to

     rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 10and

     especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.Bold and willful, they do not

     tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, 11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not

     pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. 12But these, like irrational animals,

     creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are

     ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, 13suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They

     count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while

     they feast with you. 14They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They

     have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! 15Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They

     have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, 16but was rebuked for

     his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

     17These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been

     reserved. 18For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are

     barely escaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves

     of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 20For if, after they have escaped

     the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again

     entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21For it would

     have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back

     from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22What the true proverb says has happened to them: "The

     dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire."

chapter 3

     The Day of the Lord Will Come

     1This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere

     mind by way of reminder, 2that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the

     commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 3knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come

     in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4They will say, "Where is the promise of his

     coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of

     creation." 5For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was

     formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 6and that by means of these the world that then

     existed was deluged with water and perished. 7But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist

     are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

     8But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a

     thousand years as one day. 9The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient

     toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10But the day of the

     Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be

     burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

     11Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and

     godliness, 12waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be

     set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13But according to his promise we

     are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

     Final Words

     14Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish,

     and at peace. 15And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote

     to you according to the wisdom given him, 16as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these

     matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to

     their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 17You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand,

     take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 18But

     grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to

     the day of eternity. Amen.