2 Peter 1:12 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know {them}, and be established in the present truth.”

2 Peter 1:12

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Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know {them}, and be established in the present truth.

Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting {you} in remembrance;

Knowing that shortly I must put off {this} my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

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2 Peter 1:1

"Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: {Simon: or, Symeon} {God...: Gr. of our God and Saviour}"

2 Peter 1:2

"Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,"

2 Peter 1:3

"According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that {pertain} unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: {to: or, by}"

2 Peter 1:4

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

2 Peter 1:5

"And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;"

2 Peter 1:6

"And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;"

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