2 Peter 1:3
as all things of his divine power to us, things toward life and piety, which were granted through the knowledge of him who called us through glory and virtue.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
Proverbs 12:4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 31:29Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excel them all.
John 17:2just as thou gave him authority over all flesh, so that all things that thou have given him, he will give them eternal life.
Romans 8:32He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?
1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:2-5
Second Peter The penman of this epistle appears plainly to be the same who wrote the foregoing; and, whatever difference some learned men apprehend they discern in the style of this epistle from that of the former, this cannot be a sufficient argument to assert that it was written by Simon who succeeded the apostle James in the church at Jerusalem, inasmuch as he who wrote this epistle calls himself Simon Peter, and an apostle ( v. 1 ), and says that he was one of the three apostles that were present at Christ's… Read the whole commentary →