2 Peter 1:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Are given

Ye might

General references

Luke 1:75

Bible References

Are given

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us, thro' the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the worship of God, and the promises:

For all the promises of God are yea in him, and amen in him, to the glory of God by us.

Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean person, saith the Lord, and I will receive you,

Having therefore, beloved, these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

And now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much better a covenant he is a mediator of, which is established upon better promises.

And for this end he is the Mediator of a new covenant, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

And this is the promise which he hath promised us, eternal life.

Ye might

But as many as received him, to them gave he privilege to become the sons of God, to them that believe in his name:

And we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

To be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him:

For they, verily, for a few days chastned us as they thought good: but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

General references

to serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.