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2 Peter 1 📜 📕 ↷
A Greeting from Peter
1 SIMON PETER, servant and Apostle of JESUS Christ, to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour JESUS Christ.📜💬📚
2 Grace to you & peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God & Christ JESUS our Lord:📜💬📚
Partakers of the Divine Nature
3 As all things of his divine power which pertain to life & godliness, are given us by the knowledge of him which hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue,📜💬📚
4 by whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature, flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.📜💬📚
5 And you employing all care, minister ye in your faith, virtue: and in virtue, knowledge:📜💬📚
6 and in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in patience, piety:📜💬📚
7 and in piety, love of the fraternity: and in the love of the fraternity, charity.📜💬📚
8 For if these things be present with you, and abound, they shall make you not vacant, nor without fruit in the knowledge of our Lord JESUS Christ.📜💬📚
9 For, he that hath not these things ready, is blind, and groping with his hand, having forgotten the purging of his old sins.📜💬📚
10 Wherefore, brethren, labour the more that by good works you may make sure your vocation and election. For, doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.📜💬📚
11 For so there shall be ministered to you aboundantly an entrance into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour JESUS Christ.📜💬📚
12 For the which cause I will begin to admonish you always of these things: and you indeed knowing and being confirmed in the present truth.📜💬📚
13 But I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by admonition:📜💬📚
14 being certain that the laying away of my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord JESUS Christ also signified to me.📜💬📚
15 And I will do my diligence, you to have often after my decease also, that you may keep a memory of these things.📜💬📚
Eyewitnesses of His Majesty
16 For, not having followed unlearned fables, have we made the power and presence of our Lord JESUS Christ known to you: but made beholders of his greatness.📜💬📚
17 For, he receiving from God his Father honour and glory, this manner of voice coming down to him from the magnifical glory, This is my beloved Son in whom I have pleased my self, hear him.📜💬📚
18 And this voice we heard brought from heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.📜💬📚
19 And we have the Prophetical word more sure: which you do well attending unto, as to a candle shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, & the day-star arise in your hearts:📜💬📚
20 understanding this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is made by private interpretation.📜💬📚
21 For, not by man's will was prophecy brought at any time: but the holy men of God spake, inspired with the Holy Ghost.📜💬📚
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