Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,

Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

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:

But, according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness truly resides.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to be sure of your calling and election. For by doing this you will never stumble into sin.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

But these men, like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed – do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.