God has offered us “precious and very great promises”, in response we should develop our faith into love. Failure to do so is blindness, forgetting we were cleaned from sin. If we practice these qualities we “will never fall”. Peter speaks as an eyewitness, in contrast to false prophets with destructive ideas.
God knows “how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgement”. We have “escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”, but we must be careful not to become “slaves of corruption” once more.