The Book of 2 Peter! verse by verse...

[kerrylee]

2Peter 1:1
I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God's straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

 

[4square]

2Pet 1:2
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

 

[kerrylee]

2Peter 1:3
Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!

 

[worldwatcher]

2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

 

[doc329]

2 Peter 1:5 (KJV) And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

 

[kerrylee]

2Peter 1:6
alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder,

 

[doc329]

2 Peter 1:7 (KJV)
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

 

[worldwatcher]

2 Peter 1:8
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[Glenda]

2Pe 1:9 For the one in whom these things are not present is blind, being shortsighted, taking on forgetfulness of the cleansing of his sins in time past.

 

[doc329]

2 Peter 1:10 (KJV) Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

 

[worldwatcher]

2 Peter 1:11
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

 

[kerrylee]

2Peter 1:12
Therefore I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

 

[Glenda]

2Pe 1:13 But I deem it right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder,

 

[doc329]

2 Peter 1:14 (KJV) Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

 

[bgoddenia]

2 Peter 1:15 And I will make every effort to see that after my departure you will always be able to remember these things.

 

[Glenda]

2Pe 1:16 For not following fables which had been cleverly devised, but having become eyewitnesses of the majesty of Jesus Christ, we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord.

 

[doc329]

2 Peter 1:17 (KJV) For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

 

[barb754]

2 Peter 1:18 (KJV) And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

 

[doc329]

2 Peter 1:19 (KJV) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

 

[Glenda]

2Pe 1:20 knowing this first, that every prophecy of Scripture did not come into being of its own interpretation;