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2 Peter 1:1-11

Partakers of the Divine Nature

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Partakers of the Divine Nature

2 Peter 1:1-11

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About this song

This song belongs to the 2 Peter collection. 2 recordings are available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book
2 Peter
Collection
2 Peter
Musical styles
Electronic
[Intro - counted pickup] One faith, equally precious One righteousness in our God and Saviour [Verse 1 - each line adds a layer] Power has already placed within reach All that belongs to life and godliness Through knowing the One who called us Into glory and virtue Great promises open like windows Corruption loses its stale air [Refrain - ascending] Through what He has promised We partake of the divine nature We escape the world's decay of lust [Verse 2 - cumulative] Faith, take virtue by the hand Virtue, walk with knowledge Knowledge, learn the rein of temperance Temperance, stay beside patience Patience, grow into godliness Godliness, make room for brotherly kindness Brotherly kindness, opened fully into charity [Interlude] [Verse 3 - reduced pulse] Let these things live and abound And knowing Christ will bear its fruit The one who cannot see this path Has forgotten the cleansing behind him Look again, remember, be diligent [Refrain - full register] Make calling and election sure Practice the road beneath your feet You shall not stumble from it And an abundant entrance will open Into the everlasting kingdom Of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour [Outro] Grace and peace multiply As every step becomes love

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About the passage

2 Peter 1: Knowledge that holds after the eyewitness is gone

The Second Epistle of Peter opens by giving its readers equal standing with the apostle in a faith neither side arranged for itself. Divine power has already supplied what pertains to life and godliness before the letter asks for diligence, and the famous chain of qualities places knowledge in the middle rather than at the summit. Then the reason for the chapter's urgency becomes personal: the writer expects to die soon and keeps returning to remembrance. He reaches back to the transfiguration, strips the scene down to the heavenly voice, and then sets that remembered experience beside prophecy. The result is deliberate. The eyewitness will disappear, but the written word remains, a lamp held in darkness until dawn.

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