2 Peter 1:3
According as his diuine power hath giuen vnto vs all things that perteine vnto life and godlinesse, through the acknowledging of him that hath called vs vnto glory and vertue.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2Grace and peace be multiplied to you, through the acknowledging of God, and of Iesus our Lord,
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For the Lord God is the sunne and shielde vnto vs: the Lord will giue grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly.
Proverbs 12:4A vertuous woman is the crowne of her husband: but she that maketh him ashamed, is as corruption in his bones.
Proverbs 31:29Many daughters haue done vertuously: but thou surmountest them all.
John 17:2As thou hast giuen him power ouer all flesh, that he shoulde giue eternall life to all them that thou hast giuen him.
Romans 8:32Who spared not his owne Sonne, but gaue him for vs all to death, how shall he not with him giue vs all things also?
1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithfull, by whom ye are called vnto the fellowship of his Sonne Iesus 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 →