2 Peter 1:3

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,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

In Context

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

4through 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:

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Cross References

John 17:2as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all that thou hast given him.

Romans 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not with him also freely give us all things?

1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, by whom you have been called into 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 →

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