2 Peter1
1Shim’on [he has heard] Kefa [pebble] [pebble], a slave and an apostle of Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God-The Father and our Saviour Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah]:2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God-The Father, and of Yeshua [God is Salvation] our Lord - Kurios,3According as his divine power has given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue (power):4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you2f might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue (power); and to virtue (power) knowledge;6And to knowledge self-control; and to self-control patience; and to patience godliness;7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that you2f shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah].9But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.10For what reason the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you2f do these things, you2f shall never fall:11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord - Kurios and Saviour Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah].12For what reason I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you2f know [them], and be established in the present truth.13Yes, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;14Knowing that shortly I must put off [this] my tabernacle, even as our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah] has showed me.15Moreover I will endeavour that you2f may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.16For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.17For he received from God-The Father the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you2f do well that you2f take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God-The Father spoke [as they were] moved by the Holy Spirit [Ruach HaKodesh].1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord - Kurios that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.2And many shall follow their pernicious (destructive, something that can injure) ways; by reason of whom the way of tshall be evil spoken of.3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.4For if God-The Father spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;5And spared not the old world, but saved No’ach [rest] the eighth [person], preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;6And turning the cities of S’dom [Burning] and ‘Amorah [a ruined heap] into ashes condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an example unto those that after should live ungodly;7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy Conversation (behavior; way of life; community) of the wicked:8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] unlawful deeds;)9The Lord - Kurios knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous [are they], selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord - Kurios.12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Bil’am [Not of the People] [the son] of B’sor [burning or torch], who loved the wages of unrighteousness;16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.18For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord - Kurios and Saviour Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], they are again entangled in it, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.1This second Epistle (important or formal letter), beloved, I now write unto you; in [both] which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:2That you2f may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord - Kurios and Saviour:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation.5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God-The Father the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord - Kurios as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.9The Lord - Kurios is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward (in custody, with a guard; prison), not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.10But the day of the Lord - Kurios will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up.11[Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought you2f to be in [all] holy Conversation (behavior; way of life; community) and godliness,12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God-The Father, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.14For what reason, beloved, seeing that you2f look for such things, be diligent that you2f may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.15And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord - Kurios [is] salvation; even as our beloved brother Sha’ul [desired] also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;16As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.17You2f therefore, beloved, seeing you2f know [these things] before, beware lest you2f also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.18But grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord - Kurios and Saviour Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah]. To him [be] glory both now and forever. Amen.
TovRose