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May grace and peace be yours in full measure through your knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

God's Call and Choice

God's divine power has given us everything we need to live a truly religious life through our knowledge of the one who called us to share in his own[a] glory and goodness. In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:3 to share in his own; some manuscripts have through his.

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