2 Peter 1

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Peter begins with a greeting, affirming he wrote this letter, and it is written to all Christians.

It should be reassuring that God has already given us all the gifts we need for our entire lives and godliness. We received this through knowledge from God, who called us to faith. Through His glory, He gave us great promises, and in these promises, we share in divinity because we have escaped sinful nature. But we must always be adding and improving because there is always room to better ourselves. We must add integrity to faith, knowledge to integrity, self-control to knowledge, endurance to self-control, godliness to endurance, Christian affection to godliness, and love to Christian affection. We can always build and improve. Once we have added all of these things to our lives, and they are improving, we are productive in Christ, but if they are missing, we forget we have been forgiven. Make every effort to secure that what you are doing is God's calling for your life. By continuing to add these things and make improvements, we will never fall away and will be allowed to enter God's Kingdom. Peter says he will keep reminding these of these things until he dies, and we must too remind people of how they need to stay right with God. Finally, Peter says that God revealed to Him that His time is short, yet Peter uses this time to make sure that others are right with God. This is how we should spend our days, making sure others can join us in our salvation.

Peter assures the other Christians that the apostles aren't making up the stuff that they teach about, but they were there with Jesus and witnessed it all as it happened. They saw Jesus get baptized and heard God say that "This is my Son in whom I delight." They know as a fact that the things the prophets said are true, so he encourages Christians to heed their warnings. Indeed, nothing in Scripture is of men's interpretations or from their imaginations, but they actually come from the Holy Spirit spoken through men's mouths.