2 Peter 1:4

Greeting

³ seeing that His divine power has given us all things that are needful for life and godliness, through our knowledge of Him who has appealed to us by His own glorious perfections. ⁴ It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings. ⁵ But for this very reason--adding, on your part, all earnestness-- along with your faith, manifest also a noble character: along with a noble character, knowledge;

Desires of the Flesh

In the World

Of the Flesh

Hebrews 12:10

It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

2 Peter 2:18-20

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

John 1:12-13

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

2 Corinthians 6:17-1

Therefore, "'Come out from among them and separate yourselves,' says the Lord, 'and touch nothing impure; and I will receive you, and will be a Father to you,

Ephesians 4:23-24

and to get yourselves renewed in the temper of your minds and clothe yourselves

Romans 9:4

To them belongs recognition as God's sons, and they have His glorious Presence and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the Temple service, and the ancient Promises.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God, whatever their number, have their confirmation in Him; and for this reason through Him also our "Amen" acknowledges their truth and promotes the glory of God through our faith.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.

Galatians 3:16

(Now the promises were given to Abraham and to his seed. God did not say 'and to seeds,' as if speaking of many, but 'and to your seed,' since He spoke of only one--and this is Christ.)

Galatians 6:8

He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.

Colossians 3:10

and have clothed yourselves with the new self which is being remoulded into full knowledge so as to become like Him who created it.

Hebrews 8:6-12

But, as a matter of fact, the ministry which Christ has obtained is all the nobler a ministry, in that He is at the same time the negotiator of a sublimer covenant, based upon sublimer promises.

Hebrews 9:15

And because of this He is the negotiator of a new Covenant, in order that, since a life has been given in atonement for the offences committed under the first Covenant, those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance which has been promised to them.

James 4:1-3

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

1 Peter 4:2-3

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, a bondservant and Apostle of Jesus Christ: To those to whom there has been allotted the same precious faith as that which is ours through the righteousness of our God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:15-16

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise which He Himself has given us--the Life of the Ages.