2 Peter 1:2-13 2 May grace (God’s favor) and peace be multiplied to you in knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that to life and godliness knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence.
4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape from the moral decay that is in the world because of covetousness and become sharers of the divine nature.
5 For this very reason, adding your diligence. Employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue, and in virtue [develop] knowledge ,
6 And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety),
7 And in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love.
8 For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
9 For whoever lacks these qualities is blind, [spiritually] shortsighted, seeing only what is near to him, and has become oblivious [to the fact] that he was cleansed from his old sins.
10 Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.
11 Thus there will be richly and abundantly provided for you entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 So I intend always to remind you about these things, although indeed you know them and are firm in the truth that [you] now [hold].
13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle (tent, body), to stir you up by way of remembrance,
