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title: 2 Peter 1
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createdAt: 2024-09-11T01:19:18.206Z
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**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: **2 **Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

**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: **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. **5 **And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; **6 **And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; **7 **And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. **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. **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. **10 **Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: **11 **For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

**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. **13 **Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting *you* in remembrance; **14 **Knowing that shortly I must put off *this* my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. **15 **Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

**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. **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. **18 **And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

**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: **20 **Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. **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.