2 Peter 1:3
As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For a sun and a shield [is] Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones [is] one causing shame.
Proverbs 31:29'Many [are] the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'
John 17:2according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that — all that Thou hast given to him — he may give to them life age-during;
Romans 8:32He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?
1 Corinthians 1:9faithful [is] God, through whom ye were called to 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 →