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II PETER ยท Chapter 1
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 has given unto us all things that
pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has
called us to glory and virtue:
1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these all of you 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 wilful restrain; and to wilful restrain patience;
and to patience godliness;
1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
love.
1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that all
of you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
1:9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see far off,
and has 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 all of you do these things, all of you 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 all of you 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 has showed me.
1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that all of you 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; unto which
all of you do well that all of you take heed, as unto a light that shines
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 spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
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