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📚Simon✭ Peter, a servant✭ and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious✭ faith with us through the righteousness✭ of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:The way grace and peace come to believers
2 📚Grace and peace be multiplied✭ to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
What God has given believers and the reason for it
3 📚just as his divine power✭ has given to us all things that we need for life and godliness✭, through the knowledge of him who has called✭ us by his glory✭ and virtue✭. 4 📚Through these, great and precious promises✭ have been given to us, so that through them✭ you may become partakers of the divine nature✭, having escaped✭ the corruption✭ that is in the world through evil desire✭.
How to make sure of our salvation
5 📚✭For this very reason, giving all your effort, add✭ to your faith✭ virtue, and to virtue✭ knowledge✭, 6 📚and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control✭ patient endurance, and to patient endurance✭ godliness✭, 7 📚and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness✭ love✭. 8 📚For if these things are in you, and are increasing✭, they will cause you to be neither barren nor unfruitful✭ in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 📚But he who lacks these things is blind, and cannot see far off✭, and has forgotten✭ that he was purged from his old sins.
10 📚Therefore, brethren, give even more effort to make your calling and election✭ certain. For if you do these things, you will never fall✭. 11 📚For in this way an entrance into the everlasting kingdom✭ of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly provided to you.
The importance of remembering the truth
12 📚 Therefore I will not neglect to remind✭ you always of these things, though you know them, and are established✭ in the present truth. 13 📚Yes, I think it fitting, as long as I am in this tabernacle✭, to stir you up by giving this reminder, 14 📚✭knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me. 15 📚Moreover, I will make an effort✭ to see that you will always be able to keep these things in memory after my decease.
The apostles were eye-witnesses to Christ’s glory
16 📚For we✭ did not follow cunningly devised fables✭, when we made known to 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 such a voice as this came to him from the majestic glory: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased”. 18 📚✭And we heard this voice which came from heaven, when we were with him in the holy✭ mountain.
Prophecy in the Bible
19 📚We have also a more sure word of prophecy✭. And you do well to take heed to it, as to a light that shines in a dark place✭, until the day dawns✭, and the day star✭ arises in your hearts. 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture✭ is of any private interpretation. 21 📚For prophecy did not come in olden times by the will of man✭, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.