 1 From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To those who have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. 3 By His divine power He has given everything+ to us that pertains to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue. 4 By this exceedingly great and precious promises are given to us so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 Also by this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience, to patience godliness 7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness. And to brotherly kindness, add true love. 8 For if these things are in you and abound in you, then they will not make you barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But those who lack these things are blind and cannot see and have forgotten the purging of their old sins. 10 Therefore family+, rather than this, be diligent to make your calling~ and election~ sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall. 11 For in this way you will be abundantly supplied+ an entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 12 Therefore, I will not neglect+ to remind you about these things, even though you already know them and have already been established in the present truth. 13 Yes, I consider+ it proper, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by reminding you, 14 knowing that very soon+ I must put off this my temporary tabernacle, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me. 15 Moreover, I will endeavor in this, so that after my departure+ you may be able to always remember these things. 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For He received honor and glory from God the Father when there came such a voice to Him from the most excellent glory: This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. 18 We heard this voice from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. 19 We also have a more sure word of prophecy to which you will do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Day Star arises in your hearts. 20 Know this first: That no prophecy in the Scriptures is of any private interpretation. 21 For true prophecy has not come forth at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
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