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2 Peter 1:2

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in your knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 1 Make Your Calling and Election Sure

English Majority Text (NT)

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 bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

3As His divine power has granted to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,

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Cross References

Luke 10:22And turning to His disciples He said, “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

Romans 1:7To all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Paul's Longing to Visit Rome

Philippians 3:8More than that I also consider all things to be loss, on account of the surpassing worth of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sustained the loss of all things, and I consider them to be rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ,

2 Peter 1:3As His divine power has granted to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,

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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