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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.

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Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

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Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

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This letter is from Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to all of you who share the same precious faith we have, faith given to us by Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, who makes us right with God.

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Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.

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Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

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Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

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May God bless you with his special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord, better and better.

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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!

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His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

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as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,

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As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness!

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We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you--your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

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Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

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by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

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And by that same mighty power, he has given us all of his rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in his divine nature.

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So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding,

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For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;

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But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

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So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.

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alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder,

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and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;

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to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

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Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness.

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warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others.

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and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

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to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

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Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.

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With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus.

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For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.

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But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

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For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

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But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.

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So, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing,

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Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall,

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Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;

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So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Doing this, you will never stumble or fall away.

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the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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And God will open wide the gates of heaven for you to enter into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Because the stakes are so high, even though you're up-to-date on all this truth and practice it inside and out, I'm not going to let up for a minute in calling you to attention before it.

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So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.

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For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.

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I plan to keep on reminding you of these things--even though you already know them and are standing firm in the truth.

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This is the post to which I've been assigned--keeping you alert with frequent reminders--and I'm sticking to it as long as I live.

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I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body,

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Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

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Yes, I believe I should keep on reminding you of these things as long as I live.

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I know that I'm to die soon; the Master has made that quite clear to me.

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because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

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knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

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But the Lord Jesus Christ has shown me that my days here on earth are numbered and I am soon to die.

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And so I am especially eager that you have all this down in black and white so that after I die, you'll have it for ready reference.

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

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Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease.

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So I will work hard to make these things clear to you. I want you to remember them long after I am gone.

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We weren't, you know, just wishing on a star when we laid the facts out before you regarding the powerful return of our Master, Jesus Christ. We were there for the preview! We saw it with our own eyes:

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We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

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For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

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For we were not making up clever stories when we told you about the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and his coming again. We have seen his majestic splendor with our own eyes.

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Jesus resplendent with light from God the Father as the voice of Majestic Glory spoke: "This is my Son, marked by my love, focus of all my delight."

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For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased."

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For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

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And he received honor and glory from God the Father when God's glorious, majestic voice called down from heaven, "This is my beloved Son; I am fully pleased with him."

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We were there on the holy mountain with him. We heard the voice out of heaven with our very own ears.

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We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain.

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And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

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We ourselves heard the voice when we were there with him on the holy mountain.

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We couldn't be more sure of what we saw and heard--God's glory, God's voice. The prophetic Word was confirmed to us. You'll do well to keep focusing on it. It's the one light you have in a dark time as you wait for daybreak and the rising of the Morning Star in your hearts.

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And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

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And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

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Because of that, we have even greater confidence in the message proclaimed by the prophets. Pay close attention to what they wrote, for their words are like a light shining in a dark place--until the day Christ appears and his brilliant light shines in your hearts.

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The main thing to keep in mind here is that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of private opinion.

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Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation.

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knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,

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Above all, you must understand that no prophecy in Scripture ever came from the prophets themselves

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And why? Because it's not something concocted in the human heart. Prophecy resulted when the Holy Spirit prompted men and women to speak God's Word.

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For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

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for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

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or because they wanted to prophesy. It was the Holy Spirit who moved the prophets to speak from God.