8. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9. For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
10. Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
11. For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
12. Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
13. I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
14. knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
15. Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
16. For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
18. We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.
19. We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
20. knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.