¹² Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

²¹ I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.

¹ Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

¹⁴ I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

¹⁵ But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

¹⁷ But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

² for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

¹³ I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

³ Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

¹ This 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;

¹⁵ Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

¹² Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

¹⁰ But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

⁹ Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

³² But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

⁶ If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

⁷ rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

⁵ So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.