From Forest Deal's suggestions

By TW

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 \v 3 All the things concerning divine power for life and godliness have been given to us through the knowledge of God, who called us through his own glory and excellence.
-\v 4 Through these, he gave us precious and great promises, so that you might be sharers in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world that is caused by evil desires.
+\v 4 Through these he gave us precious and great promises, so that you might be sharers in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world that is caused by evil desires.
 
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-\v 5 For this reason, do your best to add goodness to your faith; and to goodness add knowledge;
+\v 5 For this reason, do your best to add goodness to your faith, and to goodness add knowledge,
-\v 6 to knowledge add self-control; to self-control add endurance; to endurance add godliness;
+\v 6 to knowledge add self-control, to self-control add endurance, to endurance add godliness,
-\v 7 to godliness add brotherly affection; and to brotherly affection add love.
+\v 7 to godliness add brotherly affection, and to brotherly affection add love.
 
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 \v 8 If these things are in you and grow in you, you will not be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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 \v 12 Therefore I will always be ready to remind you of these things, although you know them, and although you are strong in the truth you now have.
-\v 13 It is proper for me to think, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by way of reminder. 
+\v 13 I think it is proper for me, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by way of reminder. 
 \v 14 For I know that the putting off of my tent will be soon, because our Lord Jesus Christ has revealed this to me.
-\v 15 I will make every effort to see that after my departure you may be always able to remember these things.
+\v 15 I will make every effort to see that after my departure you may always be able to remember these things.
 
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 \v 16 For we did not follow cleverly invented myths when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 
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 \v 4 For God did not spare the angels who sinned. Instead he handed them down to Tartarus to be kept in chains of lower darkness until the judgment.
 \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies read, \fqa to be kept in pits of lower darkness until the judgment \fqa* . \f*
-\v 5 Also, he did not spare the ancient world. Instead, he preserved Noah, who was a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly.
+\v 5 Also, he did not spare the ancient world. Instead, he preserved Noah, who was a herald of righteousness, along with seven others when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly.
-\v 6 God also reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to destruction, as an example of what is to happen to the ungodly.
+\v 6 God also reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to destruction as an example of what is to happen to the ungodly.
 
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 \v 7 But as for the righteous Lot, he was oppressed by the sensual behavior of lawless people.
 \v 8 So that righteous man, who was living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul because of what he saw and heard.
-\v 9 The Lord knows how to rescue godly men out of trials, and how to hold unrighteous men for punishment at the day of judgment.
+\v 9 The Lord knows how to rescue godly men out of trials and how to hold unrighteous men for punishment at the day of judgment.
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 \v 10 This is especially true for those who continue in the corrupt desires of the flesh and who despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are not afraid to blaspheme the glorious ones.
 \v 11 Angels have greater strength and power, but they do not bring insulting judgments against them to the Lord.
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 \v 20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
-\v 21 It would have been better for them not to know the way of righteousness than to know it and turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.
+\v 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.
 \v 22 This proverb is true for them: "A dog returns to its own vomit, and a washed pig returns to the mud."
 
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-\v 1 Beloved, this is now the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them they are reminders to stir up your sincere mind,
+\v 1 Beloved, this is now the second letter that I have written to you, and in both of them they are reminders to stir up your sincere mind
 \v 2 so that you will recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command of our Lord and Savior given through your apostles.
 
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 \v 4 They will say, "Where is the promise of his return? From when our fathers fell asleep, all things have stayed the same, since the beginning of creation."
 
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-\v 5 They willfully forget that the heavens and the earth came to exist out of water and through water, long ago, by God's command,
+\v 5 They deliberately forget that long ago by the word of God the heavens and the earth came to exist out of water and through water,
-\v 6 and that through these things, the world of that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
+\v 6 through which the world existing at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
-\v 7 But now the heavens and the earth are reserved for fire by that same command. They are reserved for the day of judgment and the destruction of the ungodly people.
+\v 7 By the same word the heavens and the earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people.
 
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