[2Pet 1]
1:1 ¹Symeon Peter, a ²servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained ³a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of ⁴our God and the Saviour Jesus Christ:

¹So Aℵ 1739 1852 1881* 2344 322 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm. p⁷²Bψ 1241 1243 cop^sa,bo read Simon
²Gk. bondservant
³Gk. an equally precious
⁴Or, our God and Saviour Compare vs. 11; ch. 2:20; 3:18; Titus 2:13.

1:2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
1:3 seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us ⁵by his own glory and virtue;

⁵So AℵCψ 1739 1852 1881 1241 1243 2344 33 cop^sa,bo vg arm. p⁷²B 322 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read through glory and virtue;

1:4 whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye might become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped ⁶from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

⁶So BA (2344 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. ...in the world...) vg. Cψ 1739 1881 1241 1243 322 arm read from that which is in the world by lust and corruption. (p⁷²)ℵ cop^sa,bo read from the lust of corruption that is in the world.

1:5 Yes, ⁷and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;

⁷So p⁷²BC* (ℵψ 1739 [1852] 1881 1241 2344 33 322). A vg read ye also adding on your part

1:6 and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control ⁸patience; and in your patience godliness;

⁸Or, stedfastness (both times)

1:7 and in your godliness ⁹brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

⁹Gk. love of the brethren (both times)

1:8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9 For he in whom these things are not present is blind, ¹⁰seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

¹⁰Or, closing his eyes,

1:10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence¹¹ to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

¹¹So p⁷²BC 1739 1881 1241 2344 322 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. But (A)ℵψ 1852 cop^sa,bo vg arm add by your good works in order

1:11 for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
1:12 ¹²Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in ¹³the present truth.

¹²So BAℵC 1739 1241 1243 2344 322 cop^bo. 1852 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., cop^sa read Wherefore I shall not be negligent to p⁷²ψ almost alone read Therefore I shall always be ready to
¹³Or possibly, the truth which is present with you.

1:13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
1:14 knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear unto me.
1:15 Yes, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my ¹⁴exodus to call these things to remembrance.

¹⁴Or, decease or, departure (Gk. exodus)

1:16 For we did not follow cunningly devised ¹⁵fables, when we made known unto you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we became eye-witnesses of his majesty.

¹⁵Gk. myths,

1:17 For he ¹⁶received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I was well pleased:

¹⁶Gk. having received

1:18 and this voice we ourselves heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.
1:19 And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a ¹⁷dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

¹⁷Gk. squalid

1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of ¹⁸private interpretation.

¹⁸Or, special

1:21 For no such prophecy ever ¹⁹came by the will of man: but ²⁰men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹Gk. was brought
²⁰So p⁷²B 1739 1852 1881 1241 1243 322 (cop^bo) arm. (A)ℵψ 2344 33 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., (cop^sa) vg read holy men of God spake, C (81) almost alone read holy men spake from God,

[2Pet 2]
2:1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall ²¹secretly bring in ²²destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

²¹Lit. bring in under false pretenses
²²Or, sects of perdition, or, destructive opinions,

2:2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
2:3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose condemnation now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
2:4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but ²³cast them down to ²⁴Tartarus, and committed them to ²⁵chains of dark gloom, to be reserved unto judgment;

²³Or, cast them into dungeons,
²⁴Tartarus: a dark abyss, ... the prison of the Titans. So Liddell & Scott, Abridged edition; Oxford, 1871. See Ge 6:2-3, from which the Gk. mythical account may derive, and Jude 6.
²⁵So p⁷²ψ 1739 1852 1881 1241 1243 2344 33 322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., cop^bo vg arm. But BAℵC almost alone, cop^sa read pits of dark gloom,

2:5 and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah ²⁶with seven others, a ²⁷preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

²⁶Gk. the eighth person,
²⁷Or, herald of righteousness,

2:6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes ²⁸condemned them with ²⁹an overthrow, having made them an example ³⁰unto those about to be ungodly;

²⁸So Aℵψ 2344 33 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., cop^sa vg arm. But p^72txtBC* 1739 1881 1241 1243 322 cop^bo omit with an overthrow 1852 reads overthrew them,
²⁹Gk. a catastrophe,
³⁰So p⁷²B 1852 1243 (cop^sa,bo) arm. AℵCψ 1739 1881 1241 2344 33 322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., vg read unto ungodly men;

2:7 and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked
2:8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, ³¹put to the test his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds):

³¹Gk. rubbed on a touchstone See Rv 20:10 footnote.

2:9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;
2:10 but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at ³²dignities:

³²Gk. glories:

2:11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them ³³before the Lord.

³³So BℵC 1739 1852 1243 322 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. p⁷² 1241 read from the Lord. Aψ 1881 2344 33 cop^sa,bo vg omit before the Lord.

2:12 But these as creatures without reason, born ³⁴mere animals ³⁵to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their ³⁶destroying surely be destroyed,

³⁴Gk. (φυσικος, physikos) natural
³⁵Or, to take and to destroy,
³⁶Or, corruption (Similarly three words later.) Compare 1Tm 6:9.

2:13 ³⁷suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, revelling in their ³⁸deceivings while they feast with you;

³⁷So p⁷²Bℵ*ψ 1852 1243 (arm). AC 1739 1881 1241 2344 322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., cop^sa,bo vg read receiving to themselves the hire
³⁸Bψ 1243 vg read love-feasts 1739 1881 (1241) 322 read ignorances

2:14 having eyes full of ³⁹adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

³⁹Gk. an adulteress,

2:15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of ⁴⁰Bosor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

⁴⁰B arm almost alone read Beor (See Nu 22:5.)

2:16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.
2:17 These are springs without water, and ⁴¹mists driven by a storm; for whom the gloom of darkness hath been reserved.

⁴¹So (p⁷²)Bℵψ 1243 ((AC 1739 1852 1881 1241 2344 33 322 add forever)). 048 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read clouds driven by a storm ... hath been reserved forever.

2:18 For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are ⁴²almost escaping from them that live in error;

⁴²So p⁷²BAψ (2344) 33 cop^sa,bo vg. But ℵ*C 1739 1852 1243 322 048^vid and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm read indeed escaping from them

2:19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of ⁴³whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

⁴³Or, what

2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of ⁴⁴our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

⁴⁴So p⁷²AℵCψ 1739 1852 1243 2344 33 322 048^vid vg arm. B and 373 lesser Gk. mss. read the Lord and etc. 1881 cop^bo read our Lord Jesus Christ, cop^sa reads our Lord Jesus Christ and our Saviour,

2:21 For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2:22 It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, ⁴⁵The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

⁴⁵Pr 26:11.

[2Pet 3]
3:1 This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;
3:2 that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:
3:3 knowing this first, that ⁴⁶on the last of the days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

⁴⁶Or, in the last days

3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of his presence? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
3:5 For this ⁴⁷they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and ⁴⁸an earth held together out of water and ⁴⁹amidst water vapors, by the word of God;

⁴⁷Or, is concealed from them, And in vs. 8 Let not this be concealed from you,
⁴⁸Or possibly, earth having been formed by the word of God up above the water and under cover of mist; Compare Ge 1:6-7; 2:5-6.
⁴⁹Gk. through

3:6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
3:7 but the ⁵⁰heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been ⁵¹stored up for fire, being reserved against a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

⁵⁰Or, heavenly bodies And so in vs. 12.
⁵¹Or, stored with fire,

3:8 But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering ⁵²toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

⁵²So p⁷²BC 1739 1881 1241 1243 2344 322 048^vid 0156 cop^bo arm. Aℵψ 1852 33 cop^sa vg read for your sake, A majority of lesser Gk. mss. read toward us,

3:10 But the day of the Lord will have come ⁵³as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be ⁵⁴exposed.

⁵³So p⁷²BAℵψ 1739 1852 1881 1241 1243 2344 33 322 048^vid 0156 and 45 lesser Gk. mss., cop vg. C and 441 lesser Gk. mss. read as a thief in the night,
⁵⁴Or, discovered. So Bℵ 1739^txt 1852 1881 1241 322 0156^vid and 8 lesser Gk. mss., arm. A (1243) 2344 33 048 and 470 lesser Gk. mss., cop^bo read burned up. C reads shall disappear. [ψ vg omit this clause.] p⁷² alone reads the clause the works that are being dissolved therein shall be exposed.

3:11 ⁵⁵Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ⁵⁶ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness,

⁵⁵So p^(72),74vidB 1739 1852 1881 1241 1243 322 arm. Aℵψ 2344 33 048 and 431 lesser Gk. mss., cop^bo vg read Seeing then that these things are all to be dissolved, C reads But seeing that ... are thus etc. 81 cop^sa read Seeing then that ... are thus etc.
⁵⁶p^72*,74B almost alone read ought people to be

3:12 looking for and ⁵⁷hastening the presence of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

⁵⁷Or, earnestly desiring the presence

3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.
3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;
3:16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and ⁵⁸unto the day of eternity. ⁵⁹Amen.

⁵⁸Or, forever. (Cf. Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus 18:10.) Lit. unto a day of an age.
⁵⁹So p⁷²AℵCψ 1852 2344 33 322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., cop^sa,bo vg arm. B 1739* 1881 1241 1243 omit Amen.