1Simon 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:
2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3According 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:
4Whereby 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.
5And beside this, giving all diligence, add
to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6And to knowledge temperance; and to
temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity.
8For 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.
9But he that lacketh these things is blind,
and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he
was purged from his old sins.
10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give
diligence to make your calling and election sure:
for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto
you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12Wherefore 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.
13Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in
this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in
remembrance;
14Knowing that shortly I must put off this my
tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath
shewed me.
15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be
able after my decease to have these things always in
remembrance.
16For 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.
17For 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.
18And this voice which came from heaven we
heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19We 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:
20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the
scripture is of any private interpretation.
21For 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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