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 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.
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