2 Peter 1:3

2. God’s great gifts and promises call for rich Christian culture and graces, 2 Peter 1:3-9.

3. A proper punctuation commences here a new sentence, which extends through 2 Peter 1:7.

According as Rather, Forasmuch as; laying the foundation for the exhortation in 2 Peter 1:5-7.

Given… us all things Whatever pertains to the work of salvation and the life of holiness is God’s gracious gift, originating in, and bestowed by, him. The all things is, in the Greek, emphatic, and must be taken in the broadest sense, as including whatever is in any way connected with raising us up from the death and ruin of sin to the fulness of the glory of heaven. They are brought to us by his divine power; probably referring less to its operation in their provision, as in the incarnation and resurrection, than to it in the actual gift of salvation.

Life Spiritual life.

Godliness Reverential piety toward God. The two words express inward and outward holiness.

Through the knowledge No mystical rites or superstitious observances can obtain the least of the all things: the declared and successful instrument is knowledge, the coming to a full knowledge. Grace and power are the supernatural essentials to holiness, but they work through the truth received, and in accord with our rational nature.

Him that hath called us God, yet, nevertheless, our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, as in 2 Peter 1:1, and especially because 2 Peter 1:8 defines the knowledge as of our Lord Jesus Christ.

To glory and virtue The best texts agree in reading, By his own glory and virtue. Glory belongs to his Godhead: virtue is, as in the Greek of 1 Peter 2:9, his moral excellence and perfections. By all the attributes of his nature he called us to the blessings of the gospel.