2 Peter 1:3

as the giver to us of all things that be of the power of God, unto life and the fear of God, through the recognition of him who hath called us unto his own glory and moral excellence:

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

2May grace and peace abound to you through the recognition of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,

4wherein he hath given you very great and precious promises; that by them ye might become partakers of the nature of God, while ye flee from the corruptions of the lusts that are in the world.

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Cross References

John 17:2As thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he might give life eternal to as many as thou hast given him.

Romans 8:32And, if he spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not give us all things, with him?

1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful; by whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Messiah, 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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