2 Peter 1:12-21

American Standard Version

¹² Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you. ¹³ And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; ¹⁴ knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me. ¹⁵ Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my ^[a]decease to call these things to remembrance. ¹⁶ For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and ^[b]coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. ¹⁷ For he ^[c]received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: ¹⁸ and this voice we ourselves heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount. ¹⁹ And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a ^[d]dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: ²⁰ knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of ^[e]private interpretation. ²¹ For no prophecy ever ^[f]came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.