2 Peter 1:3
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue.
Text-Critical English NT
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
John 17:2just as yoʋ have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to everyone yoʋ have given him.
Romans 8:32He who did not spare his own Son but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, by 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 →