Last updated on December 15, 2024
Today’s reading is from 2 Peter
Like Paul in his second letter to Timothy, Peter knows that his time left on earth is short. He knows that this will be the last letter he writes. Like his first letter, this one isn’t written to a specific person or an individual church. It’s written to all believers.
One of my favorite passages comes from this letter. I believe it’s Peter summing up all that he knows, and all that he hopes for his brothers and sisters.
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness, and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
2 Peter 2:1-9
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