2 Peter 1:1-13 ▼

1 SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained faith, equally as precious as our own, in the plan of justification revealed by our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

2 grace be to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgment of God, and Jesus our Lord.

3 As his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who has called us by his glorious power,

4 through which things very great and precious favors that were promised have been given us, that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire:

5 so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

6 and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness;

7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

10 Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.

11 For thus will an entrance be given you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

12 Wherefore, I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

13 Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you by putting you in remembrance.