Kefa’s Second Letter - to the Miqra
1:1Shim`on Kefa, a servant
and emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of
our G-d and Savior, Yeshua the Messiah: 1:2Grace to you and shalom be multiplied in the knowledge of G-d and of Yeshua our Lord,
1:3seeing that his divine power
has granted to us all things that pertain to life and G-dliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his
own glory and virtue; 1:4by
which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers
of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
1:5Yes, and for this very cause adding on your
part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
1:6and in knowledge,
self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience G-dliness; 1:7and in G-dliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly
affection, love. 1:8For
if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord
Yeshua the Messiah. 1:9For
he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
1:10Therefore, brothers,
be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
1:11For thus will be richly
supplied to you the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Yeshua the Messiah.
1:12Therefore I will not be
negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
1:13I think it right, as long
as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
1:14knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Yeshua
the Messiah made clear to me. 1:15Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
1:16For we did not
follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, but
we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 1:17For he received from G-d the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory,
"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
1:18This voice we heard come out of heaven when we were with him in the holy
mountain.
1:19We have the more sure
word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day
dawns, and the day star arises in your hearts: 1:20knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of
man: but holy men of G-d spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
2:1But there also arose false
prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive
heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2:2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as
a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger,
and their destruction will not slumber. 2:4For if G-d didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits
of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 2:5and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noach with seven others, a preacher of righteousness,
when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; 2:6and turning the cities of Sedom and `Amorah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an
example to those who would live ungodly; 2:7and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
2:8(for that righteous man
dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
2:9the Lord knows how to
deliver the G-dly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
2:10but chiefly those who walk
after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak
evil of dignitaries; 2:11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the
Lord. 2:12But these, as
unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are
ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
2:13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in
the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can't
cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
2:15forsaking the right way,
they went astray, having followed the way of Bil`am the son of Be'or, who loved the wages of wrong-doing;
2:16but he was rebuked for his
own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
2:17These are wells without
water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
2:18For, uttering great
swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping
from those who live in error; 2:19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is
overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.
2:20For if, after they have
escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah, they are again
entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.
2:21For it would be better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy mitzvah
delivered to them. 2:22But
it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had
washed to wallowing in the mire."
3:1This is now, beloved, the
second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
3:2that you should remember the
words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the mitzvot of us, the emissaries of the
Lord and Savior: 3:3knowing
this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
3:4and saying, "Where is the promise of his
coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation." 3:5For this
they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the
word of G-d; 3:6by which
means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. 3:7But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same
word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
3:8But don't forget this one
thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
3:9The Lord is not slow
concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance. 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great
noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be
burned up. 3:11Therefore
since all these things are thus to be destroyed, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy living and
G-dliness, 3:12looking
for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of G-d, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be
dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
3:13But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in
which dwells righteousness.
3:14Therefore, beloved,
seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in shalom, without blemish and blameless in his
sight. 3:15Regard the
patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Sha'ul also, according to the wisdom given to him,
wrote to you; 3:16as
also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which
the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
3:17You therefore, beloved,
knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your
own steadfastness. 3:18But
grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah. To him be the glory both now and forever.
Amein.
Notes:
[1] back to 2:21 commandment
[2] back to 3:2 commandments
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