20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, ^othe last state has become worse for them than the first.

2 ^uthat you should remember the ^vpredictions ^wof the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,

18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.