^{12 Ref} Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with `you'.

^{13 Ref} And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

^{14 Ref} knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.

^{15 Ref} Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.

^{16 Ref} For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

^{17 Ref} For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:

^{18 Ref} and this voice we `ourselves' heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.

^{19 Ref} And we have the word of prophecy `made' more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

^{20 Ref} knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

^{21 Ref} For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.