2Peter 1:1 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.

2Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

2Peter 1:3 According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness.(how?), through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue;.(the Infinite One made you righteous. You didn't have to do anything; now God wants you to awaken to that fact)

2Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these you might be.('might be' not in original; it means 'you are').partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.(lust here means, we inordinately focus upon that which is subject to perishing – the physical; lust is selfishness that is on the pathway away from the ways that truly do help both us and others:.Jeremiah 21:8 "...I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.").

2Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge.

2Peter 1:6 And to knowledge temperance.(self control – making yourself do those things you just do not feel like doing, but understanding they should be done; self control takes discipline).and to temperance patience and to patience godliness;.(Colossians 3:1-3)

2Peter 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity.

2Peter 1:8 For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Peter 1:9 But he that lacks these things is blind and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2Peter 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you shall never fall.

2Peter 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2Peter 1:13 Yea, I think it meet.(fitting), as long as I am in this tabernacle.(he's speaking of his 'temporary dwelling', his body), to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.

2Peter 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle.(a tabernacle is a dwelling place; we are spirits that dwell in our bodies), even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

2Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

2Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

2Peter 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

2Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.

2Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.