2 Peter 1:1-15 ▼

1 Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

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

3 As His divine power has given to us all things pertaining to life and piety, through the acknowledgment of Him who called us through glory and virtue,

4 through which the most great and precious promises have been given to us, that through these you may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption [and] lust in the world.

5 And [for] this same [reason] also, having brought in all diligence, supplement your faith with virtue, and with virtue—knowledge,

6 and with knowledge—self-control, and with self-control—endurance, and with endurance—piety,

7 and with piety—brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness—love;

8 for these things being in you and abounding, make [you] neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ,

9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;

10 therefore, rather, brothers, be diligent to make steadfast your calling and [divine] selection, for doing these things you may never stumble;

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

12 Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you about these things, although you have known [them] and have been established in the present truth,

13 and I think right, so long as I am in this tent, to stir you up in reminding [you],

14 having known that the laying aside of my tent is soon, even as our Lord Jesus Christ also showed to me.

15 And I will also be diligent [to ensure] that you always have a remembrance to make of these things after my departure.