B. Growth in Christ............................. 1:3-14
2Pe 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:2Pe 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.2Pe 1:5
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;2Pe 1:6
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;2Pe 1:7
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.2Pe 1:8
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.2Pe 1:9
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.2Pe 1:10
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:2Pe 1:11
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.2Pe 1:12
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.2Pe 1:13
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;2Pe 1:14
Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.