2 Peter 1:3
Seeing that his Divine power hath given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; The LORD giveth grace and glory; No good thing doth he withhold From them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; But she who causeth shame is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 31:29“Many daughters have done, virtuously, But thou excellest them all.”
John 17:2according as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that he should give everlasting life to all whom thou hast given him.
Romans 8:32He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?
1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye 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 →