2 Peter 1
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Greetings and prayer
1From Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ.
To everyone who shares with us in the privilege of believing that our God and Saviour Jesus Christ will do what is just and fair.#1.1 To everyone who…just and fair: Or “To everyone whose faith in the justice and fairness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ is as precious as our own faith.”
2I pray that God will be kind to you and will let you live in perfect peace! May you keep learning more and more about God and our Lord Jesus.
How the Lord's followers should live
3We have everything we need to live a life that pleases God. It was all given to us by God's own power, when we learnt that he had invited us to share in his wonderful goodness. 4God made great and marvellous promises, so that his nature would become part of us. Then we could escape our evil desires and the corrupt influences of this world.
5Do your best to improve your faith. You can do this by adding goodness, understanding, 6self-control, patience, devotion to God, 7concern for others, and love. 8If you keep growing in this way, it will show that what you know about our Lord Jesus Christ has made your lives useful and meaningful. 9But if you don't grow, you are like someone who is nearsighted or blind, and you have forgotten that your past sins are forgiven.
10My friends, you must do all you can to show that God has really chosen and selected you. If you keep on doing this, you won't stumble and fall. 11Then our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will give you a glorious welcome into his kingdom that will last for ever.
12You are holding firmly to the truth that you were given. But I am still going to remind you of these things. 13In fact, I think I should keep on reminding you until I leave this body. 14And our Lord Jesus Christ has already told me that I will soon leave it behind. 15That is why I am doing my best to make sure that each of you remembers all this after I am gone.
The glory of Christ
16When we told you about the power and the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, we were not telling clever stories that someone had made up. But with our own eyes we saw his true greatness. 17God, our great and wonderful Father, truly honoured him by saying, “This is my own dear Son, and I am pleased with him.”#Mt 17.1-5; Mk 9.2-7; Lk 9.28-35. 18We were there with Jesus on the holy mountain and heard this voice speak from heaven.
19All this makes us even more certain that what the prophets said is true. So you should pay close attention to their message, as you would to a lamp shining in some dark place. You must keep on paying attention until daylight comes and the morning star rises in your hearts. 20But you need to realize that no one alone can understand any of the prophecies in the Scriptures. 21The prophets did not think these things up on their own, but they were guided by the Spirit of God.
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2 Peter 1
1
Greeting
1 Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith equal in value to ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. 2May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3because his divine power has bestowed on us all things that are necessary for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence of character, 4through which things he has bestowed on us his precious and very great promises, so that through these you may become sharers of the divine nature after#*Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“escaping from”) which is understood as temporal escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire, 5and for this same reason, and by#*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“applying”) which is understood as means applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge, 6and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness, 7and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
Make Your Calling and Election Secure
8For if#*Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as conditional these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing#Literally “receiving forgetfulness of the cleansing” of his former sins. 10Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because if you#*Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“do”) which is understood as conditional do these things, you will never ever stumble. 11For in this way entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied for you.
12Therefore I intend to remind you continually concerning these things, although you know them and are established in the truth that you have. 13But I consider it right, for as long as I am in this habitation, to stir you up by a reminder, 14because I#*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal know that the removal of my habitation is imminent, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. 15And I will also make every effort that you are able at any time, after my departure, to recall these things to mind#Literally “to make recollection of these”.
The Reliable Prophetic Word of Testimony
16For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ by#*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“following”) which is understood as means following ingeniously concocted myths, but by#*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“being”) which is understood as means being eyewitnesses of that one’s majesty. 17For he received honor and glory from God the Father when#*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was brought”) a voice such as this was brought to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” 18And we ourselves heard this voice brought from heaven when we#*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were”) which is understood as temporal were with him on the holy mountain, 19and we possess as more reliable the prophetic word, to which you do well if you#*Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“pay attention to”) which is understood as conditional pay attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20recognizing this above all, that every prophecy of scripture does not come about from one’s own interpretation, 21for no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
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