Introduction

1 To those to whom, through the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, there has been granted faith equally privileged with our own, from Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ.Titleless Section Break

2 May blessing and peace be yours in ever increasing measure, as you advance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus, our Lord. 3 For his divine power has given us everything that is needful for a life of piety, as we advance in the knowledge of him who called us by a glorious manifestation of his goodness. 4 For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions. 5 Yes, and for this reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge, 6 knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety, 7 piety by mutual affection, and mutual affection by love. 8 For, when these virtues are yours, in increasing measure, they prevent your being indifferent to, or destitute of, a fuller knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 Surely the person who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that they have been purified from their sins of the past! 10 Therefore, friends, do your best to put God’s call and selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall. 11 For in this way you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.