2 Peter 1:3
As His divine power has given to us all things pertaining to life and piety, through the acknowledgment of Him who called us through glory and virtue,
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2Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the acknowledgment of God and of Jesus our Lord!
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For YHWH God [is] a sun and a shield, || YHWH gives grace and glory. He does not withhold good || To those walking in uprightness.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband, || And as rottenness in his bones [is] one causing shame.
Proverbs 31:29“The daughters who have done worthily [are] many, || You have gone up above them all.”
John 17:2according as You gave to Him authority over all flesh, that—all that You have given to Him—He may give to them continuous life;
Romans 8:32He who indeed did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him grant to us all things?
1 Corinthians 1:9faithful [is] God, through whom you were 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 →