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1 I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God's straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
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2 Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
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2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
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3 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!
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3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
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4 We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you - your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.
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4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
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5 So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding,
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5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;
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6 alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder,
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6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
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| Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved. (The Message Bible Online) |
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