2 Peter 1:1
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Overview - 2 Peter 1 | |
1 | Confirming them in hope of the increase of God's graces, |
5 | he exhorts them, by faith, and good works, to make their calling sure; |
12 | whereof he is careful to remind them, knowing that his death is at hand; |
16 | and warns them to be constant in the faith of Christ, who is the true Son of God, by the eyewitness of the apostles beholding his majesty, and by the testimony of the Father, and the prophets. |
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2 Peter 1:1 (King James Version)
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.
- Acts 15:14
- Peter
- Matthew 4:18 ; 10:2 Luke 22:31-34 ; John 1:42 ; 21:15-17 1 Peter 1:1
- a servant
- John 12:26 ; Romans 1:1
- an apostle
- Luke 11:49 ; John 20:21 ; 1 Corinthians 9:1 ; 15:9 Galatians 2:8 ; Ephesians 3:5 ; 4:11 1 Peter 5:1
- have
- 4 ; Acts 15:8 Acts 15:9 ; Romans 1:12 ; 2 Corinthians 4:13 ; Ephesians 4:5 ; Philippians 1:29 ; 2 Timothy 1:5
- Titus 1:1 Titus 1:4 ; 1 Peter 1:7 ; 2:7
- through
- Jeremiah 33:16 ; Romans 1:17 ; 3:21-26 1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 2 Corinthians 5:21 ; Philippians 3:9
- of God and our Saviour
- Greek of our God and Saviour.
- Isaiah 12:2 ; Luke 1:47 ; Titus 2:13