8. For if these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9. For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing of his former sins.
10. Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because if you do these things, you will never ever stumble.
11. For in this way entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied for you.
12. Therefore I intend to remind you continually concerning these things, although you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
13. But I consider it right, for as long as I am in this habitation, to stir you up by a reminder,
14. because I know that the removal of my habitation is imminent, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
15. And I will also make every effort that you are able at any time, after my departure, to recall these things to mind.
16. For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ by following ingeniously concocted myths, but by being eyewitnesses of that one’s majesty.