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May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
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For if these things are yours and abound, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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so there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.
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Eyewitnesses of Christ’s Glory
For 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.
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then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
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whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a reviling judgment upon them before the Lord.
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For 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 overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
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The Promise of the Lord’s Coming
This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder;
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that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.
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But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
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But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.
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And count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
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But 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.
