4Whereby 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.
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And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; …
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. …
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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 chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The apostle Peter, being moved by the Holy Ghost to write once more to those who from among the Jews were turned to faith in Christ, begins this second epistle with an introduction, wherein the same persons are described and the same blessings are desired that are in the preface to his former letter; but there are some additions or alterations which ought to be taken notice of, in all the three pa…
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