2 Peter 1:2
New International Version
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

New Living Translation
May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.

English Standard Version
May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

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

King James Bible
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

New King James Version
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

New American Standard Bible
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

NASB 1995
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

NASB 1977
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

Legacy Standard Bible
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

Amplified Bible
Grace and peace [that special sense of spiritual well-being] be multiplied to you in the [true, intimate] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Christian Standard Bible
May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

American Standard Version
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the teaching of our Lord Yeshua The Messiah,

Contemporary English Version
I 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord:

English Revised Version
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
May good will and peace fill your lives through your knowledge about Jesus, our God and Lord!

Good News Translation
May grace and peace be yours in full measure through your knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

International Standard Version
May grace and peace be yours in abundance through full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

Literal Standard Version
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the acknowledgment of God and of Jesus our Lord!

Majority Standard Bible
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

New American Bible
may grace and peace be yours in abundance through knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

NET Bible
May grace and peace be lavished on you as you grow in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

New Revised Standard Version
May grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

New Heart English Bible
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Webster's Bible Translation
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

Weymouth New Testament
May more and more grace and peace be granted to you in a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

World English Bible
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Young's Literal Translation
Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Greetings from Peter
1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: 2Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.…

Cross References
John 17:3
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Romans 1:7
To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:8
More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

2 Peter 1:3
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

2 Peter 1:5
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

2 Peter 1:8
For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


Treasury of Scripture

Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

Grace.

Numbers 6:24-26
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: …

Daniel 4:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

Daniel 6:25
Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

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Romans 1:7
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:2
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Jude 1:2
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

the knowledge.

2 Peter 3:18
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Isaiah 53:11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Luke 10:22
All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

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2 Peter 1
1. Peter confirms the hope of the increase of God's grace,
5. exhorts them, by faith, and good works, to make their calling sure;
12. whereof he is careful to remind them, knowing that his death is at hand;
16. and assures them of the authenticity of the Gospel, by the eyewitness of the apostles and the prophets.














(2) Grace and peace be multiplied unto you.--Identical with the last clause of 1Peter 1:2, and with no other greeting in any Epistle. What follows here is peculiar to this Epistle, which begins and ends with grace and knowledge. (Comp. 2Peter 3:18.)

Through the knowledge.--Better, as before, in. The preposition indicates the sphere or element in which the action takes place, or the aspect in which it is contemplated. Tyndale and the Rhemish version have "in."" Knowledge" is not quite strong enough. In the original we have a compound word, which implies fuller, riper, more minute knowledge. But any of these expressions would be a little too strong, as the simple word is a little too weak. The same compound recurs 2Peter 1:3. It is rare in St. Paul's earlier letters, but is more common in the later ones. This fact, coupled with its appearance here, agrees well with the more contemplative aspect in which the Gospel began gradually to be presented; a change which finds its fullest expression in the transition from the first three Gospels to the fourth. The word is introduced here with telling emphasis; "in the fuller knowledge of God" anticipates the attack that is coming upon the godless speculations of the "false teachers" in 2 Peter 2.

And of Jesus our Lord.--Deliberately added. These false teachers "denied the Lord that bought them" (2Peter 2:1), and promised all kinds of high-sounding benefits to their followers (2Peter 2:18). The Apostle assures his readers that only in fuller knowledge of their Lord can grace and peace be multiplied to them. The combination "Jesus our Lord" is unusual; elsewhere only Romans 4:24. Another small indication of independence (see first Note). There should be a fullstop at "Lord;" so Tyndale, Cranmer, and Geneva. . . .

Verse 2. - Grace and peace be multiplied unto you. The order of the words in the Greek is the same as in 1 Peter 1:2. The exact correspondence should be noticed. The writer of the Second Epistle, if not St. Peter himself, must have been attempting to imitate of set purpose the opening salutation of the First Epistle. Through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord; rather, in the knowledge. The knowledge of God is the sphere in which grace and peace are communicated to the soul; they cannot be found outside that sphere. "Full knowledge" (ἐπίγνωσις) may be regarded as the key-note of this Epistle, as "hope" is of the first. Ἐπίγνωσις is a stronger word than γνῶσις; it means "knowledge" directed towards an object, gradually approaching nearer and nearer to it, concentrated upon it, fixed closely upon it. So it comes to mean the knowledge, not merely of intellectual apprehension, but rather of deep contemplation; the knowledge which implies love - for only love can concentrate continually the powers of the soul in close meditation upon its object. Comp. 1 Corinthians 13, where, after saying in verse 8 that "knowledge (γνῶσις) shall be done away," St. Paul continues, in verse 12, "Now I know (γινώσκω) in part, but then I shall know (ἐπιγνώσομαι) even as also I am known (ἐπεγνώσθην)." He contrasts our present imperfect knowledge with the full knowledge which the blessed will have in heaven, and which God now has of us, using the verb ἐπιγινώδκω of that fuller knowledge, as he had used γνῶσις of the imperfect knowledge. The word ἐπίγνωσις occurs several times in the Gospels, and is common in St. Paul's Epistles; it seems to imply a sort of protest against the knowledge that "puffeth up" (1 Corinthians 8:1), and especially against the knowledge "falsely so called" (1 Timothy 6:20), which was claimed by the false teachers, who were the precursors of the coming Gnosticism (comp. Colossians 1:9, 10; Colossians 2:2; Colossians 3:10). St. Peter had learned mere of the doings of these false teachers since he wrote the First Epistle, and this may perhaps be a reason for his frequent use of the word ἐπίγνωσις in the second. "Jesus our Lord" is a variation of the more common form, such as "the Lord Jesus;" it occurs only here and in Romans 4:24.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Grace
Χάρις (Charis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5485: From chairo; graciousness, of manner or act.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

peace
εἰρήνη (eirēnē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1515: Probably from a primary verb eiro; peace; by implication, prosperity.

be multiplied
πληθυνθείη (plēthyntheiē)
Verb - Aorist Optative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4129: To increase, multiply. From another form of plethos; to increase.

to you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

through
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

[the] knowledge
ἐπιγνώσει (epignōsei)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1922: From epiginosko; recognition, i.e. full discernment, acknowledgement.

of God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

of Jesus
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

Lord.
Κυρίου (Kyriou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.


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