2 Peter 1:2

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Simon 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:

3As 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,

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Cross References

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

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

Philippians 3:8Yes, verily, I also count all things to be loss, for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them to be refuse, that I may gain Christ,

2 Peter 1:3As 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,

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 →

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