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Simon Peter, a servant and apostle (special messenger) of Jesus Christ, to those who have received (obtained an equal privilege of) like precious faith with ourselves in and through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is [a]perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and [b]freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, [c]precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:2 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
  2. 2 Peter 1:2 Webster’s New International Dictionary offers this as a definition of “peace.”
  3. 2 Peter 1:2 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

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