1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
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1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
From Simon Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. [1]
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 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.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 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 Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12 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.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
I know I that I will die soon.
15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
I hope you will remember these things after I'm dead.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Because we haven't told you clever fables,
but were eye witnesses of Jesus Christ.
17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
We were on the mountain when we heard the voice of God say to Jesus,
"This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." [2]
18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
No prophecy in scripture is subject to anyone's private interpretation. [3]
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Although this epistle claims to have been written by Peter, he was almost certainly not its author. It is thought to have been written around 90-100 CE, long after Peter's death. The late date is suspected because verses 3:3-4 make excuses for the failure of the expected second coming of Christ, the author refers to the letters of Paul in a way that indicates that Paul's epistles were already considered equal to the other scriptures, and the epistle depends upon the letter of Jude, which is thought to have been written around 80-100 CE.
Scholars are also agree that whoever the author or Second Peter might have been, he was not the same person who wrote First Peter. So neither of the Petrine epistles were written by Peter, and they were forged by different people.
There are a number of other forged (pseudepigraphical) documents that claimed to have been written by Peter, including the Gospel of Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter, and the Acts of Peter.
The author tries to bolster his claim to be the apostle Peter by claiming to have witnessed the transfiguration. (Matthew 17:1-8)
That's just your interpretation.