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SimonPeter, a bond-servant and apostle of JesusChrist, To those who have received a faith of the samekind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, JesusChrist:
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seeing that His divinepower has granted to us everythingpertaining to life and godliness, through the trueknowledge of Him who called us by His ownglory and excellence.
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For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificentpromises, so that by them you may becomepartakers of the divinenature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.