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Chapter 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: |
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Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge
of God, and of Jesus our Lord, |
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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; |
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6 | And to knowledge
temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; |
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And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
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| 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. |
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But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar
off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. |
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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; |
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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. |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
