7. in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:
8. for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
9. for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.
10. Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;
11. for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you.
12. Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of these things, although knowing them and established in the present truth.
13. But I account 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 is speedily to take place, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has manifested to me;
15. but I will use diligence, that after my departure ye should have also, at any time, in your power to call to mind these things.
16. For we have not made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly imagined fables, but having been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight;
18. and this voice we heard uttered from heaven, being with him on the holy mountain.
19. And we have the prophetic word made surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until the day dawn and the morning star arise in your hearts;