2 Peter 1:3-5
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [[a]full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).
4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.
5 For this very reason, [b]adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in [c]exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence),
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- 2 Peter 1:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
- 2 Peter 1:5 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
- 2 Peter 1:5 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
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