THE SECOND LETTER FROM ST. PETER

Second Letter of Peter was written in response to a young church stray from Christ’s clear teaching. A keyword ‘knowledge’ echoes throughout this letter. He refreshes the reader’s memory regarding the proper knowledge that makes possible everything we need for life and godliness.

The Second Letter from Simon Peter, Servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ. To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as precious as ours, may grace and peace be yours in full measure through your knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

God’s Call and Choice

God’s divine power has given us everything we need to live a truly righteous life through our knowledge of the One who called us to share in His own glory and goodness.  In this way He has given us the very great and precious gifts He promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world and may come to share the divine nature.  For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge; to your knowledge add self control; and to your self control add endurance; and to your endurance add godliness; and to your godliness add brotherly affection; and to your brotherly affection add love.  These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of Lord Jesus Christ.  But whoever does not have them is so short-sighted that he cannot see and has forgotten that he has been purified from his past sins.

So then, my brothers, try even harder to make God’s call and His choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.  In this way you will be given the full right to enter the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

And so I will always remind you of these matters, even though you already know them and are firmly grounded in the truth you have received.  I think it only right for me to stir up your memory of these matters as long as I am still alive.  I know that I shall soon put off this mortal body as our Lord Jesus Christ plainly told me.  I will do my best then to provide a way for you to remember these matters at all times after my death. (2 Peter 1:1-15)

                                                       

This is the Word of God

Thanks be to Lord