¹ Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to the ones who were allotted an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

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

³ As his divine$ power has been gifted, all things pertaining to life and devoutness through the full knowledge of the one who called us through glory and virtue,

⁴ through which the precious and greatest promises have been gifted to us, in-order-that through these things you° might become partners of the divine$ nature, after you fled away from the corruption in the world among its lust.

⁵ But also in this same thing, you° brought in all diligence, supply° in your° faith, virtue; and in the virtue, knowledge;

⁶ and in the knowledge, self-control; and in the self-control, endurance; and in the endurance, devoutness;

⁷ and in the devoutness, brotherly-love; and in the brotherly-love, love$.

⁸ For$ if these things are existing and increasing in you°, none will designate you° as being idle nor unfruitful toward the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ For$ the one is blind in whom these things are not present$, being short-sighted, took on forgetfulness of {i.e., forgot} the cleansing from his old sins.

¹⁰ Hence brethren, be° more diligent to make$ your° calling and choice steadfast, for$ you° should never trip someday while practicing these things,

¹¹ for$ so the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you°.

¹² Hence, I will habitually not be neglecting to remind you° concerning these things, although you° are knowing them and have been established in the present$ truth.

¹³ But I am deeming it righteous, inasmuch as I am in this tabernacle, to awaken you° with a reminder,

¹⁴ knowing that the removal of my tabernacle is coming quickly, just-as our Lord Jesus Christ also indicated to me.

¹⁵ But I will also be diligent each-time, to have you° in remembrance of these things, to practice them after my exodus.

¹⁶ For$ we have not followed wisely devised fables when we made known to you° the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we became eyewitnesses of that majesty.

¹⁷ For$ he received honor and glory from God the Father, when such a voice was carried to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted. {Mat 3:17, 17:5, Mar 1:11, Luk 3:22}

¹⁸ And we heard this voice, which was carried from heaven, being together-with him in the holy mountain.

¹⁹ And we have the steadfast prophetic word, as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day should dawn and the

²⁰ Knowing this first, that every prophecy of Scripture does not come$ from one’s own interpretation.

²¹ For$ no prophecy was ever brought about by the will of man, but the holy men of God spoke the word being carried by the Holy Spirit. {Footnote: 2Pe 1:19, or: Venus; literally: ‘light-bringing’; metaphorically Jesus.}