SHIM`ON Kepha, a servant and an apostle of Yahusha Ha'Mashiach, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of Elohiym and our Adonai Yahusha Ha'Mashiach:
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of Elohiym, and of Yahusha Ha'Mashiach,
According as his divine power has given unto us all things את that pertain unto life and holiness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience holiness;
And to holiness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Adonai Yahusha Ha'Mashiach.
But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Adonai and Savior Yahusha Ha'Mashiach.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Yahuah-Yahusha Ha'Mashiach has showed me.
Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Adonai Yahusha Ha'Mashiach, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For he received from Elohiym the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my yachiyd, in whom I am well pleased.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the brilliance arises in your hearts:
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of Yahuah spoke as they were moved by the Ruach Ha'Qodesh.