{{ Introduction to 2 Peter 65-67 AD
The emphasis is on false teachers and false teaching. It is a letter of warning, and Peter’s cure for false teaching is true* spiritual knowledge. As Jesus showed us in Matthew, it has been written... This letter is most likely a follow-up letter to his previous one to the same group of people.
It was written in Peter’s mature years. He is one of the elders. It stirs up readers to grow in Christian character and encourage them into a patient expectation of the Lord’s return also warning them against being ‘led away in the error of the immoral.’ Peter wants them to grow in ‘the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.’
As translators, do not be lead away by those Bibles who would change Chapter 3:10 at the end to anything but ‘will be burned up.’ }}
1:1 Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to the ones who were allotted an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 1:2 may grace and peace be multiplied to you° in the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.1:3 As his divine* power has been gifted, all things pertaining to life and devoutness through the full knowledge of the one who called us through glory and virtue, 1:4 through which the precious and greatest promises have been gifted to us, in-order-that through these things you° might become partners of the divine* nature, after you fled away from the corruption in the world among its lust.
1:5 But also in this same thing, you° brought in all diligence, supply° in your° faith, virtue; and in the virtue, knowledge; 1:6 and in the knowledge, self-control; and in the self-control, endurance; and in the endurance, devoutness; 1:7 and in the devoutness, brotherly-love; and in the brotherly-love, love*. 1:8 For* if these things are existing and increasing in you°, none will designate you° as being idle nor unfruitful toward the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9 For* the one is blind in whom these things are not present*, being short-sighted, took on forgetfulness of {i.e., forgot} the cleansing from his old sins.
1:10 Hence brethren, be° more diligent to make* your° calling and choice steadfast, for* you° should never trip someday while practicing these things, 1:11 for* so the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you°.
1:12 Hence, I will habitually not be neglecting to remind you° concerning these things, although you° are knowing them and have been established in the present* truth. 1:13 But I am deeming it righteous, inasmuch as I am in this tabernacle, to awaken you° with a reminder, 1:14 knowing that the removal of my tabernacle is coming quickly, just-as our Lord Jesus Christ also indicated to me. 1:15 But I will also be diligent each-time, to have you° in remembrance of these things, to practice them after my exodus. 1:16 For* we have not followed wisely devised fables when we made known to you° the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we became eyewitnesses of that majesty. 1:17 For* he received honor and glory from God the Father, when such a voice was carried to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted. {Mat 3:17, 17:5, Mar 1:11, Luk 3:22} 1:18 And we heard this voice, which was carried from heaven, being together-with him in the holy mountain. 1:19 And we have the steadfast prophetic word, as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day should dawn and the {F} morning-star might rise, to which you° are doing* well, and taking-heed in your° hearts. 1:20 Knowing this first, that every prophecy of Scripture does not come* from one’s own interpretation. 1:21 For* no prophecy was ever brought about by the will of man, but the holy men of God spoke the word being carried by the Holy Spirit.
{Footnote: 2Pe 1:19, or: Venus; literally: ‘light-bringing’; metaphorically Jesus.}