2 Peter 1:3

As the gevurat Hashem (the power of G-d) has given us everything for Chayyim (life) and chasidus through the da'as (personal, saving knowledge) of the One Who bestows on us the kri'ah (calling) to His own Kavod (Glory) and Tzidkanut (Righteousness), + 1:3 See 1:5-7; 2:5,21; 3:13

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2Chesed Hashem and Shalom Hashem to you abundantly in the da'as (personal, saving knowledge) of Hashem and Adoneinu Yehoshua.

4So Hashem has given us precious havtachot gedolot + 1:4 3:4,9,13 cf. 2:19 (great promises) that through these promises you might become [regenerate] deveykus participants with the life of the teva haelohi + 1:4 cf. Yn 1:13 (divine nature), having escaped the [degenerate] Olam Hazehʼs lust engendered corruption.

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Cross References

Psalms 84:11For a yom in Thy khatzrot is better 1 than a thousand. 1 I had rather be a doorkeeper in the Beis Elohai, 1 than to dwell in the ohalim resha (tents of wickedness). 1

Proverbs 12:4An aishes chayil (a woman of valor, an excellent wife) is an ateret to her ba'al, 1 but she that bringeth shame is like rottenness in his atzmot. 1

Proverbs 31:29Rabbot banot have done virtuously, 1 but thou excellest them all. 1

John 17:2Vi-bahlt (since) you have given him samchut (authority) over kol basar for this purpose: in order that all which you have given him, HaAv may give to them Chayyei Olam. + 17:2 Dan 7:14

Romans 8:32He who indeed did not spare His own Zun fun der Oybershter, but gave him up for us all, how shall He not also with him give us all things. + 8:32 see Ro 8:12-17; 4:13f

1 Corinthians 1:9Ne'eman (faithful) is Hashem through whom you were called into the chavurah (company, fellowship, society) of His Zun fun der Oybershter Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.

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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