2 Peter 1:2
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New International Version (©1984)
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

New Living Translation (©2007)
May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.

English Standard Version (©2001)
May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

International Standard Version (©2008)
May grace and peace be yours in abundance through full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the teaching of our Lord Yeshua The Messiah,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
May good will and peace fill your lives through your knowledge about Jesus, our God and Lord!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

American King James Version
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

American Standard Version
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord:

Darby Bible Translation
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

English Revised Version
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

Webster's Bible Translation
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

Weymouth New Testament
May more and more grace and peace be granted to you in a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

World English Bible
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Young's Literal Translation
Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord - That is, grace and peace abound to us, or may be expected to be conferred on us abundantly, if we have a true knowledge of God and of the Saviour. Such a knowledge constitutes true religion: for in that we find "grace" - the grace that pardons and sanctifies; and "peace" - peace of conscience, reconciliation with God, and calmness in the trials of life. See the notes at John 17:3.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Grace - God's favor; peace - the effects of that favor in the communication of spiritual and temporal blessings.

Through the knowledge of God - Εν επιγνωσει· By the acknowledging of God, and of Jesus our Lord. For those who acknowledge him in all their ways, he will direct their steps. Those who know Christ; and do not acknowledge him before men, can get no multiplication of grace and peace.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you,.... By a multiplication of grace may be meant a larger discovery of the love and favour of God; which though it admits of no degrees in itself, being never more or less in God's heart, yet, as to the manifestations of it, it is different, and capable of being increased, and drawn out to a greater length; or else an increase of the internal graces of the Spirit of God, as to the actings and exercise of them; or a larger measure of the gifts of the Spirit, for greater usefulness among them; or a clearer view, and a more enlarged knowledge of the Gospel of the grace of God, and the truths of it; and indeed, the word grace may take in all these senses: and by a multiplication of peace, which the apostle in this salutation also wishes for, may be designed an affluence of all kind of prosperity, temporal, and spiritual, external and internal; and more especially an increase of spiritual peace, a fulness of joy and peace in believing, arising from a sense of free justification by Christ's righteousness, and full pardon and atonement by his blood and sacrifice:

through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord; which is to be understood, not of a natural, but of a spiritual and evangelical knowledge; of a knowledge of God, not as the God of nature and providence, but as the God of all grace, as in Christ, and a covenant God in him, and of the person, offices, and grace of Christ; and which designs true faith in him, by which means larger discoveries of the grace of God are made, and a greater enjoyment of spiritual peace is had: or it may be rendered, "with the knowledge of God", &c. and the sense then is, that the apostle prays, as for a multiplication of grace and peace, so along with it, an increase of spiritual and evangelical knowledge; which in the best is imperfect, but may be increased by the blessing of God on those means which he has appointed for that end, such as the word and ordinances. The Syriac version renders this clause, "through the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ", leaving out the word "God", and the copulative "and", and adding the word "Christ"; and the Ethiopic version reads, "in the knowledge of our God, Christ Jesus our Lord", without any distinction. After the inscription and salutation begins the epistle, with an account of various special favours bestowed upon these persons; and are mentioned by the apostle to encourage his faith and theirs, in expectation of enjoying what he here wishes unto them, since already such great and good things had been bestowed upon them.


Vincent's Word Studies

In the knowledge (ἐν ἐπιγνώσει)

The compound expressing full knowledge, and so common in Paul's writings.

Our Lord (κυρίου ἡμῶν)

Thee word Lord in the second epistle is always used of God, unless Christ or Saviour is added.


Geneva Study Bible

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you {2} through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

(2) Faith is the acknowledging of God and Christ, from which all our blessedness issues and flows.


People's New Testament

1:2 Grace and peace. The usual apostolic benediction. These come

through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus Christ our Lord. Those who have learned to know God and his Son have eternal life (Joh 17:3). This knowledge is one that comes from fellowship with Christ.


Wesley's Notes

1:2 Through the divine, experimental knowledge of God and of Christ.


Scofield Reference Notes

Margin grace

Grace (imparted). Rom 6:1 2Pet 3:18


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. Grace . peace-(1Pe 1:2).

through-Greek, "in": the sphere IN which alone grace and peace can be multiplied.

knowledge-Greek, "full knowledge."

of God, and of Jesus our Lord-The Father is here meant by "God," but the Son in 2Pe 1:1: marking how entirely one the Father and Son are (Joh 14:7-11). The Vulgate omits "of God and"; but oldest manuscripts support the words. Still the prominent object of Peter's exhortation is "the knowledge of Jesus our Lord" (a phrase only in Ro 4:24), and, only secondarily, of the Father through Him (2Pe 1:8; 2Pe 2:20; 3:18).


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-11 Faith unites the weak believer to Christ, as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every sincere believer is by his faith justified in the sight of God. Faith worketh godliness, and produces effects which no other grace in the soul can do. In Christ all fulness dwells, and pardon, peace, grace, and knowledge, and new principles, are thus given through the Holy Spirit. The promises to those who are partakers of a Divine nature, will cause us to inquire whether we are really renewed in the spirit of our minds; let us turn all these promises into prayers for the transforming and purifying grace of the Holy Spirit. The believer must add knowledge to his virtue, increasing acquaintance with the whole truth and will of God. We must add temperance to knowledge; moderation about worldly things; and add to temperance, patience, or cheerful submission to the will of God. Tribulation worketh patience, whereby we bear all calamities and crosses with silence and submission. To patience we must add godliness: this includes the holy affections and dispositions found in the true worshipper of God; with tender affection to all fellow Christians, who are children of the same Father, servants of the same Master, members of the same family, travellers to the same country, heirs of the same inheritance. Wherefore let Christians labour to attain assurance of their calling, and of their election, by believing and well-doing; and thus carefully to endeavour, is a firm argument of the grace and mercy of God, upholding them so that they shall not utterly fall. Those who are diligent in the work of religion, shall have a triumphant entrance into that everlasting kingdom where Christ reigns, and they shall reign with him for ever and ever; and it is in the practice of every good work that we are to expect entrance to heaven.


John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Romans 1:7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
1 Peter 1:2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
2 Peter 1:5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;
2 Peter 1:8 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.
2 Peter 2:20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
Jude 1:2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.

Abundance Acknowledgement Full Grace Granted Increasing Jesus Multiplied Peace


Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

Grace. Nu 6:24-26 Da 4:1 6:25

See on Ro 1:7 1Pe 1:2 Jude 1:2 Re 1:4

the knowledge. 3:18 Isa 53:11 Lu 10:22 Joh 17:3 2Co 4:6 1Jo 5:20,21

2 Peter Chapter 1 Verse 2

Alphabetical: abundance and be God Grace in Jesus knowledge Lord multiplied of our peace the through to you yours

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