2 Peter 1:3-8

Make Your Calling and Election Sure

3 as His d divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him e who called us by glory and virtue, 4 f by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be g partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the 1 corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 But also for this very reason, h giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue i knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control 2 perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and j to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither 3 barren k nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  1. Cross References
    1 Peter 1:5
    Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  2. Cross References
    1 Thessalonians 2:12
    That you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
    2 Thessalonians 2:14
    To which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    1 Peter 5:10
    But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
  3. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 1:20
    For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
    2 Corinthians 7:1
    Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  4. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 3:18
    But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
  5. Cross References
    2 Peter 3:18
    But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  6. Cross References
    2 Peter 1:2
    Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
  7. Cross References
    Galatians 6:10
    Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.
  8. Cross References
    John 15:2
    Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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