2 Peter 1:3
Through his divine power we have been given everything that's important to live a God-centered life. This comes through knowing him who called us to himself by his own glory and goodness. In this way he's given us wonderful, priceless promises.
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2May you have ever more grace and peace as you grow in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For the Lord God is our sun and shield, and he gives us grace and honor. The Lord doesn't hold back anything good from those who do right.
Proverbs 12:4A good wife is a crown for her husband, but one who brings shame is like rot in his bones.
Proverbs 31:29“Many women do great things, but you are better than all of them!”
John 17:2For you gave him authority over all people so that he might give eternal life to all those you have given to him.
Romans 8:32God, who did not hold back his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, won't he also freely give us everything?
1 Corinthians 1:9God is trustworthy who called you to share together in fellowship with 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 →