For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet’s own imagination,

Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written you, in which I am trying to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder:

and saying, “Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”