May grace and peace be lavished on you<n id="1" /> as you grow<n id="2" /> in the rich knowledge<n id="3" /> of God and of Jesus our Lord!<n id="4" />p>

For thus an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be richly provided for you.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written<n id="1" /> you, in which<n id="2" /> I am trying to stir up<n id="3" /> your pure mind by way of reminder:

For if<n id="1" /> these things are really yours<n id="2" /> and are continually increasing,<n id="3" /> they will keep you from becoming<n id="4" /> ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of<n id="5" /> knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">For we did not follow cleverly concocted fables when we made known to you the power and return<n id="1" /> of our Lord Jesus Christ;<n id="2" /> no,<n id="3" /> we were<n id="4" /> eyewitnesses of his<n id="5" /> grandeur.<n id="6" />

suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways.<n id="1" /> By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight,<n id="2" /> they are stains and blemishes, indulging<n id="3" /> in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation,<n id="1" /> just as also our dear brother Paul<n id="2" /> wrote to you,<n id="3" /> according to the wisdom given to him,

<t /><p class="bodytext">But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you.<n id="1" /> These false teachers<n id="2" /> will<n id="3" /> infiltrate your midst<n id="4" /> with destructive heresies,<n id="5" /> even to the point of<n id="6" /> denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring<n id="7" /> swift destruction on themselves.