2 Peter 1

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Symeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of equal value to ours through the righteousness of our God and savior Jesus Christ:	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:
2 may grace and peace be yours in abundance through knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.	2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and power.	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:
4 Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divinenature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.	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.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge,	5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion,	6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love.	7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 If these are yours and increase in abundance, they will keep you from being idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.	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.
9 Anyone who lacks them is blind and shortsighted, forgetful of the cleansing of his past sins.	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.
10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more eager to make your calland election firm, for, in doing so, you will never stumble.	10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For, in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you.	11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12 Therefore, I will always remind you of these things, even though you already know them and are established in the truth you have.	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.
13 I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to stir you up by a reminder,	13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 since I know that I will soon have to put it aside, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.	14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
15 I shall also make every effort to enable you always to remember these things after my departure.	15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
16 We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.	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.
17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father when that unique declaration came to him from the majestic glory, "This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased."	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.
18 We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven while we were with him on the holy mountain.	18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 Moreover, we possess the prophetic message that is altogether reliable. You will do well to be attentive to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.	19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation,	20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God.	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.