2PE-1:1  Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,

to

them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the

righteousness of God and

our Saviour Jesus Christ:

2PE-1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the

knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

2PE-1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all

things

that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of

him

that hath

called us to glory and virtue:

2PE-1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious

promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine

nature,

having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2PE-1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith

virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2PE-1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;

and to patience godliness;

2PE-1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly

kindness charity.

2PE-1:8  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make

[you

that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the

knowledge

of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2PE-1:9  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot

see

afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old

sins.

2PE-1:10  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make

your calling

and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never

fall:

2PE-1:11  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you

abundantly

into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus

Christ.

2PE-1:12  Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in

remembrance of these things, though ye know [them], and be

established in the present truth.

2PE-1:13  Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this

tabernacle,

to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;

2PE-1:14  Knowing that shortly I must put off [this] my

tabernacle,

even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.

2PE-1:15  Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my

decease to have these things always in remembrance.

2PE-1:16  For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,

when we

made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus

Christ,

but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

2PE-1:17  For he received from God the Father honour and glory,

when

there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is

my

beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

2PE-1:18  And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we

were with him in the holy mount.

2PE-1:19  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto

ye do

well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark

place, until the day dawn,

and the day star arise in your hearts:

2PE-1:20  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture

is

of any private interpretation.

2PE-1:21  For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of

man:

but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.

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