Modern Literal Version
[2 Peter 1]


     1:1 Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are allotted an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 1:2 may grace and peace be multiplied to you* in the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.


     1:3 As his divine* power has been bestowed to us as a gift, (all things pertaining to life and godliness*), through the full knowledge of him who called us through glory and virtue; 1:4 through which he has bestowed to us as a gift his great and precious promises; that* through these you* may become partners of the divine* nature, having escaped the corruption in the world with its lust.


     1:5 Now also for this same reason, besides having brought in all diligence, supply in your* faith, virtue, and in your* virtue, knowledge 1:6 and in your* knowledge, self-control, and in your* self-control, endurance, and in your* endurance, godliness*; 1:7 and in your* godliness*, brotherly-love, and in your* brotherly-love, love*. 1:8 For* if these things exist and increase in you*, none designate you* idle or unfruitful toward the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9 For* the one in whom these things are not present is blind, being short-sighted, having forgetfulness of the cleansing from his old sins. 1:10 Hence brethren, be diligent to make* your* calling and choice steadfast; for* if you* are doing these things, you* may never* trip; 1:11 for* so the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you*.


     1:12 Hence I will not neglect to remind you* about these things habitually, although you* know them and have been established in the present truth. 1:13 And I deemed it righteous, inasmuch as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you* in a reminder; 1:14 knowing that the removal of my tabernacle is coming quickly, just-as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me. 1:15 But, I will also be diligent to have these things in remembrance for you* every-time after my exodus. 1:16 For* we did not follow wisely devised fables, when we made known to you* the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we became eyewitnesses of his majesty. 1:17 For* he received honor and glory from God the Father when such a voice was carried to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted. 1:18 And we heard this voice being carried from heaven, being with him in the holy mountain. 1:19 And we have the steadfast prophetic word; to which you* are doing well and taking-heed, (as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day might dawn and the <F> morning-star might rise) in your* hearts. 1:20 Knowing this first, that every prophecy of Scripture does not come from one’s own interpretation. 1:21 For* no prophecy was ever brought about by the will of man; but the holy men of God spoke the word being carried by the Holy Spirit.


{Footnotes: 2Pet 1:19 Or Venus; literally “light-bearer”; metaphorically Jesus.}


[2 Peter 2]


     2:1 But false prophets were also among the people, as false teachers will also be among you*, who will smuggle in sects of destruction, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing quick destruction upon themselves. 2:2 And many will follow their unbridled-lusts, because of whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed. 2:3 And in their greed, they will be merchants of you* with fabricated words; to whom the condemnation from long-ago is not idle and their destruction does not slumber.

     2:4 For* if God did not spare messengers who sinned, but threw them into hell and gave them to restraints of blackness, to be kept *for judgment; 2:5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but kept Noah, the eighth person spared, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 2:6 and if by incinerating the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, he condemned them to catastrophe, having made them an example for those who are about to be ungodly; 2:7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, who had been subjugated by the conduct of the immoral in their unbridled-lusts 2:8 (for* that righteous man, who was dwelling with them, was tormenting his righteous soul by seeing and hearing their lawless works day by day). 2:9 The Lord knows how to rescue the devout out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous to the day of judgment to be punished; 2:10 and especially those who conduct-themselves after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise lordship.

     Daring and self-willed, they do not tremble to blaspheme heavenly glories; 2:11 where messengers, (though being greater in strength and power), do not bring a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. 2:12 But these men are like natural unreasoning creatures born *for apprehension and corruption, blaspheming in what they are ignorant of and in their corruption they will be utterly corrupted. 2:13 They are getting the wages of unrighteousness; those who deem it a sensual-delight to be carousing in the daylight. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions, they feast sumptuously alongside you*. 2:14 Having eyes full of an adulteress and they cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in greed; children of the curse; 2:15 leaving the straight way, they were misled, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved* the wages of unrighteousness; 2:16 but he had his reproof from his own violation of the law: when a voiceless donkey spoke with a human voice and did forbid the insanity of the prophet.

     2:17 These people are waterless springs and clouds driven by a gale to whom the blackness of darkness has been kept forever. 2:18 For* speaking flattering-words of futility, they entice with the lusts of the flesh and with unbridled-lusts, those who really had escaped from those who conduct themselves in error. 2:19 They are promising them freedom, while they themselves are* bondservants of corruption. For* in what someone has been succumbed, in this he is also enslaved. 2:20 For* if they, having escaped the defilements of the world with the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but are again entangled and succumbed in these things, the last state has become worse with them than the first. 2:21 For* it was better for them to have not known fully the way of righteousness, than, having fully known it, to turn back from the holy commandment given to them. 2:22 But it has befallen them according to the true proverb, ‘The dog turning to his own vomit again,’ and the sow that had bathed to wallowing in the mud. {Prov. 26:11}


[2 Peter 3]


     3:1 Beloved, this is already the second letter that I am writing to you*, and in both of them I am awakening your* sincere mind in a reminder; 3:2 to remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandments of the Lord and Savior through your* apostles.

     3:3 Knowing this first, that in the last of the days, mockers will come, conducting-themselves according to their own lusts, 3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of his presence? For* from the day that the fathers fell-asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation. 3:5 For* this is eluding them, (willing it to be so): that there were heavens from long-ago and an earth established out of water and through water by the word of God; 3:6 through which water the world that was then, was destroyed, being flooded with water. 3:7 But the heavens and the earth that are now, by his word have been stored up for fire, being kept to the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.


     3:8 But beloved, do not let this one thing elude you*, that one day is with the Lord like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day. 3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some deem slowness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any might perish, but for all to make room *for repentance.

     3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a crashing-sound and the elements will be dissolved by burning with scorching heat, and the earth and the works which are in it will be burned up. 3:11 Therefore these things are all to be dissolved, seeing what sort of things you* ought to possess in all holy conduct and godliness*, 3:12 expecting and diligently wanting the presence of the day of God, because of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved and the elements will melt, burning with scorching heat. 3:13 But, according to his promise, we are expecting new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.


     3:14 Hence, beloved, expecting these things, be diligent that you* may be found in peace, unstained and unblemished in his sight. 3:15 And deem the patience of our Lord to be salvation; just-as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you* according to the wisdom given to him; 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things; in which some things are difficult to perceive, which the unlearned and unstable are twisting, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 3:17 Therefore beloved, knowing beforehand these things, you* guard yourselves that* you* might not fall from your* own firmness, being led away with the error of the immoral. 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory is to him, both now and to the final day of this age. Amen.





Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1999, 2014 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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