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II PETER 1:1-11
1.
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have
obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our
Saviour Jesus Christ:
2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God,
and of Jesus our Lord,
3. According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that
pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called
us to glory and virtue:
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.
5. And beside this, giving all diligence, add
to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6. And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;
and to patience godliness;
7. And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity.
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.
9. But he that lacketh
these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he
was purged from his old sins.
10. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling
and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall;
11. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.
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