Chapter 1
SIMON Kepha, a servant and an emissary of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, to them that have obtained like precious Emunah with us through the righteousness of Yah and our Saviour Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah:
2 Chen and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of Yah, and of Yahooshua our Adonay,
3 According as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and mighty oneliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to Kavod and virtue:
4 Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your Emunah virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience mighty oneliness;
7 And to mighty oneliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Adonay and Saviour Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah has shewed me.
15 Moreover I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from Yah the Father honour and Kavod, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent Kavod, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18 And this voice which came from Heaven we heard, when we were with him in the Set-Apart mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but Set-Apart men of Yah spake as they were moved by the Set-Apart Spirit.
CHAPTER 2
BUT there were false Spokesmen of Yah also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
4 For if Yah spared not the Messengers that sinned, but cast them down to Hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the unmighty onely;
6 And turning the cities of Seḏom and Amorah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live unmighty onely;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing knows how to deliver the mighty onely out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas Messengers, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who Cheseded the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the Spokesman of Yah.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of Adonay and Saviour Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the Set-Apart commandment delivered to them.
22 But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
CHAPTER 3
THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the Set-Apart Spokesmen of Yah, and of the commandment of us the Emissaries of Adonay and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of Yah the Heavens were of old, and the Earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the Heavens and the Earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved to fire against the day of judgment and perdition of unmighty onely men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with Yah the Eternally Self-Existing as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing will come as a thief in the night; in the which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the Earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all Set-Apart conversation and mighty oneliness,
12 Looking for and hasting to the coming of the day of Yah, wherein the Heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new Heavens and a new Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Adonay is salvation; even as our beloved brother Sha’ul also according to the wisdom given to him has written to you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other writings, to their own destruction.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in Chen, and in the knowledge of our Adonay and Saviour Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah. To him be Kavod both now and for ever. Aměn.