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2 Peter 1

Peter writes to those who have obtained like precious faith through the righteousness of God and Saviour Jesus Christ. God’s divine power has given believers all things needed for life and godliness. Peter urges them to add virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity, making their calling and election sure in lived assurance, and he grounds apostolic testimony in eyewitness experience and the sure word of prophecy.

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Peter writes to those who have obtained like precious faith through the righteousness of God and Saviour Jesus Christ. God’s divine power has given believers all things needed for life and godliness. Peter urges them to add virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity, making their calling and election sure in lived assurance, and he grounds apostolic testimony in eyewitness experience and the sure word of prophecy.

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Verses 1–4Peter greets believers and reminds them that God has given what pertains to life and godliness through precious promisesVerses 5–11Believers are urged to add virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, kindness, and charity to faith and make their calling sureVerses 12–15Peter intends to keep reminding believers of these truths while he remains aliveVerses 16–18The apostles did not follow cunning fables but were eyewitnesses of Christ’s majestyVerses 19–21The prophetic word is sure, and Scripture did not come by human will but as holy men spoke by the Holy Ghost
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1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,…2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge…3According as his divine power hath given unto us all…4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:…5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith…6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to…7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.8For if these things be in you, and abound, they…9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot…10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling…11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly…12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always…13Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am…14Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle,…15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after…16For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we…17For he received from God the Father honour and glory,…18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when…19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto…20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is…21For the prophecy came not in old time by the…