2 Peter
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:
1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and
of Jesus our Lord,
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:
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.
1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to
virtue knowledge;
1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience
godliness;
1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
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.
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.
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:
1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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.
1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up
by putting you in remembrance;
1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord
Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have
these things always in remembrance.
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.
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.
1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in
the holy mount.
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:
1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private
interpretation.
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.
