2 Peter 1:2-4
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
2 May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is [a]perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and [b]freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, [c]precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [[d]full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).
4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Peter 1:2 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
- 2 Peter 1:2 Webster’s New International Dictionary offers this as a definition of “peace.”
- 2 Peter 1:2 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
- 2 Peter 1:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
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