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2 Peter 1
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2 Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue. CCC
4 By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world. CCC
5 And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:
6 And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in patience, godliness:
7 And in godliness, love of brotherhood: and in love of brotherhood, charity.
8 For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 For he that hath not these things with him is blind and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12 For which cause, I will begin to put you always in remembrance of these things: though indeed you know them and are confirmed in the present truth.
13 But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.
14 Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.
15 And I will endeavour that you frequently have after my decease whereby you may keep a memory of these things.
16 For we have not by following artificial fables made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ: but we were eyewitnesses of his greatness. CCC
17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, this voice coming down to him from the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. CCC
18 And this voice, we heard brought from heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount. CCC
19 And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. CCC
20 Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. CCC
21 For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost. CCC
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- CCC 1996 “Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond…”
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- CCC 460 “The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the…”
- CCC 1129 “The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. "Sacramental grace" is the grace of…”
- CCC 1265 “Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has…”
- CCC 1692 “The Symbol of the faith confesses the greatness of God's gifts to man in his work of creation, and even more in…”
- CCC 1721 “God put us in the world to know, to love, and to serve him, and so to come to paradise. Beatitude makes…”
- CCC 1812 “The human virtues are rooted in the theological virtues, which adapt man's faculties for participation in the divine nature: for the theological…”
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- CCC 554 “From the day Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Master "began to show his…”
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- CCC 554 “From the day Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Master "began to show his…”
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- CCC 517 “Christ's whole life is a mystery of redemption. Redemption comes to us above all through the blood of his cross, but this…”
- CCC 613 “Christ's death is both the Paschal sacrifice that accomplishes the definitive redemption of men, through "the Lamb of God, who takes away…”
- CCC 105 “God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture,…”
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- CCC 105 “God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture,…”
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- CCC 105 “God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture,…”
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