1 Symeón Pétros, slave and apostle of Iesoûs Christ, to them who, equally in honour to us, have received faith in* righteousness of the God* of ours and saviour Iesoûs Christ:
2 Grace and peace be made to abound to you, in knowledge of God and Iesoûs our Lord,
3 like as all things to you from the divine power of His, the things for life and piety, granted through the knowledge of the One having called you to His own glory and merit,
4 through which the honoured and greatest promises to us are given, so that you would become through these promises partners of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by yearning*.
5 And yet this same*: contributing, besides, all zeal, furnish by the faith of yours the merit; yet by the merit, the knowledge;
6 yet by the knowledge, the self-control; yet by the self-control, the endurance; yet by the endurance, the piety;
7 yet by the piety, the sibling-love; yet by the sibling-love, the selfless-love*.
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Notes
1 Or by (and some manuscripts instead read unto); some manuscripts read Lord
4 Or lust, craving
5 The proposed reading (alike the KJV reading "And beside this") means that Christians must not passively await the work of grace and peace and all the things for life and piety being made to abound for them (as described in verses 2-4), but must also do work as described in verses 5-7.
7 Or charity, loving-kindness