2 Peter 1 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Time Period
Circa AD 64-68 (late 1st century)
Location
Rome (traditional site of Peter's martyrdom)
Audience
Christian communities in Asia Minor (e.g., Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia) and scattered believers
Situation
As Peter senses his impending death, he urges believers to grow in faith and virtue, confirms the authenticity of his apostolic message through his eyewitness experience of Christ's transfiguration, and warns against false teachers.
Key Background
Traditionally attributed to the Apostle Peter, this epistle combats early heresies from false prophets who denied Christ's return and promoted moral license. It emphasizes personal diligence in spiritual growth and the reliability of prophecy and apostolic testimony. Scholarly debate exists on authorship, with some viewing it as pseudepigraphal from the early 2nd century, but it underscores Peter's role as an eyewitness to Jesus' life and ministry.
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May and be multiplied to you through God and Jesus our
His has given us everything we need for life and for in a that -- all through really knowing the one who called us by his own
Through these he has given us his and magnificent promises, so that through them you could in own and escape the that has brought into this world.
For this very reason, every of into adding to your trust, and to your add
and to your deep understanding add and to your add and to your add living in a way that honors God,
and to living in a way that honors God add for each other, and to add
Because if these qualities are yours and keep growing, they prevent you from being or in really knowing our Master Jesus, The One.
But anyone who lacks these things is blind, at the a having forgotten that they were from their of
So brothers and sisters, be all the more to that God has and you. Because if you do these things, you will never
and you will receive a and into the of our Master and rescuer Jesus, The One.
So I will always remind you about these things, even though you already know them and are in the truth you have.
I think it's right, as long as I'm living in this body -- this -- to keep stirring you up with reminders,
since I know that my tent will be down soon, just as our Master Jesus, The One, made clear to me.
And I will make every effort to ensure that after I'm gone, you'll always be able to remember these things.
We didn't follow when we told you about the power and of our Master Jesus, The One. No -- we were of his
He received and from God the Father when a voice came to him from the All saying: "This is my Son, the one I deeply love. I'm so pleased with him."
We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven when we were with him on the
And we have the made even more certain. You'd be smart to pay attention to it, like a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day breaks and the rises in your hearts.
Above all, understand this: No in Scripture comes from the prophet's own of things.
Because prophecy never came about by will. Instead, people spoke from as they were by the of