| 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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| 2: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge
of God, and of Jesus our Lord, |
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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: |
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| 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. |
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| 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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| 7: 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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| 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. |
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| 10: Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never
fall: |
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| 11: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 15: Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my
decease to have these things always in remembrance. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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| 18: And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were
with him in the holy mount. |
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| 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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| 20: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of
any private interpretation. |
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| 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. |
