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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Peter 1 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_peter/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_peter/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > 2 Peter 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_peter/5.htm" title="1 Peter 5">◄</a> 2 Peter 1 <a href="../2_peter/2.htm" title="2 Peter 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.1" class="v61_1_1">1</span>From Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_1">To everyone who shares with us in the privilege of believing that our God and Savior Jesus Christ will do what is just and fair.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Pet.1.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.2" class="v61_1_2">2</span>I pray that God will be kind to you and will let you live in perfect peace! May you keep learning more and more about God and our Lord Jesus.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Living as the Lord's Followers</h3><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.3" class="v61_1_3">3</span>We have everything we need to live a life that pleases God. It was all given to us by God's own power, when we learned he had invited us to share in his wonderful goodness. </span><span class="v61_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.4" class="v61_1_4">4</span>God made great and marvelous promises, so his nature would become part of us. Then we could escape our evil desires and the corrupt influences of this world.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.5" class="v61_1_5">5</span>Do your best to improve your faith by adding goodness, understanding, </span><span class="v61_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.6" class="v61_1_6">6</span>self-control, patience, devotion to God, </span><span class="v61_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.7" class="v61_1_7">7</span>concern for others, and love. </span><span class="v61_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.8" class="v61_1_8">8</span>If you keep growing in this way, it will show that what you know about our Lord Jesus Christ has made your lives useful and meaningful. </span><span class="v61_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.9" class="v61_1_9">9</span>But if you don't grow, you are like someone who is nearsighted or blind, and you have forgotten that your past sins are forgiven.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.10" class="v61_1_10">10</span>My friends, you must do all you can to show God has really chosen and selected you. If you keep on doing this, you won't stumble and fall. </span><span class="v61_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.11" class="v61_1_11">11</span>Then our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will give you a glorious welcome into his kingdom that will last forever.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.12" class="v61_1_12">12</span>You are holding firmly to the truth you were given. But I am still going to remind you of these things. </span><span class="v61_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.13" class="v61_1_13">13</span>In fact, I think I should keep on reminding you until I leave this body. </span><span class="v61_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.14" class="v61_1_14">14</span>And our Lord Jesus Christ has already told me that I will soon leave it behind. </span><span class="v61_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.15" class="v61_1_15">15</span>This is why I am doing my best to make sure that each of you remembers all of this after I am gone.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Message about the Glory of Christ</h3><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.16" class="v61_1_16">16</span>When we told you about the power and the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, we were not telling clever stories someone had made up. But with our own eyes we saw his true greatness. </span><span class="v61_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.17" class="v61_1_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Pet.1.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> God, our great and wonderful Father, truly honored him by saying, “This is my own dear Son, and I am pleased with him.” </span><span class="v61_1_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.18" class="v61_1_18">18</span>We were there with Jesus on the holy mountain and heard this voice speak from heaven.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v61_1_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.19" class="v61_1_19">19</span>All of this makes us even more certain that what the prophets said is true. So you should pay close attention to their message, as you would to a lamp shining in some dark place. You must keep on paying attention until daylight comes and the morning star rises in your hearts. </span><span class="v61_1_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.20" class="v61_1_20">20</span>But you need to realize that no one alone can understand any of the prophecies in the Scriptures. </span><span class="v61_1_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Pet.1.21" class="v61_1_21">21</span>The prophets did not think these things up on their own, but they were guided by the Spirit of God.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">To everyone who … just and fair: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “To everyone whose faith in the justice and fairness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ is as precious as our own faith.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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