2 Peter 1:3

as his divine power hath freely given us all things tending to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who hath called us to glory and fortitude:

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

2grace unto you and peace be multiplied through the knowledge of God, even Jesus our Lord,

4whereby superlatively great and precious promises are freely given to us: that by these ye might become partakers of a divine nature, having fled far away from the corruption that is in the world through inordinate concupiscence.―

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Cross References

John 17:2even as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that with regard to all those whom thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life:

Romans 8:32He who even spared not his own Son, but freely delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also, together with him, freely give us all things?

1 Corinthians 1:9Faithful is God, by whom ye have been called into communion with 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 →

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