2Peter - Chapter 1 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I you that ye shall} neither {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I you} in remembrance;
  • 14. Knowing that shortly I must put off {cf15I 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 {cf15I as they were} moved by the Holy Ghost.
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