2 Peter 1

¹Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith equal in honor with ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

²Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

³Seeing that his divine power has granted to us all the things for life and godliness through the knowledge of the One who called us by his own glory and excellence,

⁴through which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

⁵And for this very reason as well, applying all diligence, supply in your faith virtue, and in virtue knowledge,

⁶and in knowledge self-control, and in self-control endurance, and in endurance godliness,

⁷and in godliness brotherly affection, and in brotherly affection love.

⁸For these things, being present in you and abounding, render you neither idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹For he in whom these things are not present, is blind, being short-sighted, having received forgetfulness of the cleansing of his former sins.

¹⁰Therefore all the more, brothers, be diligent to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you will surely never stumble at any time.

¹¹For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

¹²Therefore I will be ready always to remind you concerning these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

¹³And I consider it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by way of reminder;

¹⁴knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is imminent, just as also our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

¹⁵And I will be diligent also that on each occasion after my departure you may be able to make remembrance of these things.

¹⁶For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ by following cleverly devised fables, but having become eyewitnesses of his majesty.

¹⁷For having received from God the Father honor and glory, when such a voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory: This is my Son, my beloved, in whom I myself was well pleased.

¹⁸And we ourselves heard this voice borne from heaven, being with him on the holy mountain.

¹⁹And we have the prophetic word as more certain, to which you do well to pay attention, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

²⁰knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes about by one's own interpretation.

²¹For prophecy was never borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God, being carried along by the Holy Spirit.