[a]Whereby most great and precious promises are given unto us, that by them ye should be partakers of the [b]divine nature, in that ye flee the corruption, which is in the [c]world through [d]lust.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:4 An explication of the former sentence, declaring the causes of so great benefits, to wit, God and his free promise, from whence all these benefits proceed, I say, these most excellent benefits, whereby we are delivered from the corruption of the world, (that is, from the wicked lusts which we carry about us) and are made, after a sort, like unto God himself.
  2. 2 Peter 1:4 By the divine nature, he meaneth not the substance of the Godhead, but the partaking of these qualities whereby the image of God is restored in us.
  3. 2 Peter 1:4 In men.
  4. 2 Peter 1:4 For lust is the fear of corruption, and hath his fear even in our very bowels and inmost parts.

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