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2 Peter 1

  1. 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:
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  2. 2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
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  3. 3According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:
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  4. 4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these all of you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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  5. 5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
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  6. 6And to knowledge wilful restrain; and to wilful restrain patience; and to patience godliness;
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  7. 7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.
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  8. 8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that all of you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  9. 9But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see far off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
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  10. 10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if all of you do these things, all of you shall never fall:
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  11. 11For 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. 12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though all of you know them, and be established in the present truth.
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  13. 13Yea, 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. 14Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.
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  15. 15Moreover I will endeavour that all of you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
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  16. 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.
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  17. 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.
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  18. 18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
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  19. 19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; unto which all of you do well that all of you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
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  20. 20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
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  21. 21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
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