2 Peter 1:3
According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:
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2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 31:29Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.
John 17:2As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.
Romans 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, by whom all of you were called unto 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 →