1. Consider, most beloved, this second epistle which I am writing to you, in which I stir up, by admonition, your sincere mind,
2. so that you may be mindful of those words that I preached to you from the holy prophets, and of the precepts of the Apostles of your Lord and Savior.
3. Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires,
4. saying: "Where is his promise or his advent? For from the time that the fathers have slept, all things have continued just as they were from the beginning of creation."