Confirm Your Calling and Election

His 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,

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

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

What 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.”

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

as 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.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.