2 PETRUS 1
1 Van Simon Petrus, 'n dienaar en apostel van Jesus Christus. Aan dié wat deur die regverdige beskikking van ons God en Verlosser, Jesus Christus, dieselfde kosbare geloof as ons ontvang het.
2 Mag daar vir julle genade en vrede in oorvloed wees deur julle kennis van God en van Jesus ons Here!
Die Christen se roeping en verkiesing
3 Sy Goddelike krag het ons alles geskenk wat ons nodig het om te lewe en Hom te dien. Dit kom deurdat ons Hom ken wat ons geroep het deur sy heerlikheid en mag. 4 Deur dit te doen, het Hy ons die kosbaarste en allergrootste gawes geskenk wat Hy belowe het. Daardeur kan julle die verderf ontvlug wat deur begeerlikheid in die wêreld werksaam is, en deel kry aan die Goddelike natuur. 5 En juis om hierdie rede moet julle alles in die stryd werp om julle geloof te verryk met deugsaamheid, die deugsaamheid met kennis, 6 die kennis met selfbeheersing, die selfbeheersing met volharding, die volharding met godsvrug, 7 die godsvrug met liefde onder mekaar en die liefde onder mekaar met liefde vir alle mense.
8 As julle dit alles besit en dit neem steeds toe, sal julle met ywer en met vrug ons Here Jesus Christus beter leer ken. 9 Iemand wat hierdie dinge nie sy eie gemaak het nie, is kortsigtig; nog erger, hy is blind en het vergeet dat hy van sy vroeëre sondes gereinig is.
10 Daarom, broers, moet julle julle des te meer daarvoor beywer om deur julle lewe te bewys dat God julle geroep en verkies het. As julle hierdie dinge doen, sal julle nooit struikel nie. 11 En dan sal daar vir julle vrye en feestelike toegang wees tot die ewige koninkryk van ons Here en Verlosser, Jesus Christus.
12 Om hierdie rede sal ek julle altyd aan hierdie dinge herinner, al weet julle dit en al staan julle reeds vas in die waarheid wat aan julle bekend gemaak is. 13 Ek ag dit immers my plig om julle aan te spoor deur julle hieraan te herinner so lank as ek nog lewe. 14 Ek weet dat my dood nie meer ver is nie. Ons Here Jesus Christus het dit trouens duidelik aan my bekend gemaak. 15 Daarom sal ek my daarvoor beywer dat julle ook ná my heengaan altyd hierdie dinge sal onthou.
Die heerlikheid van Christus en die boodskap van die profete
16 Toe ons aan julle die krag van ons Here Jesus Christus en sy wederkoms bekend gemaak het, het ons ons nie op versinsels of legendes verlaat nie. Nee, met ons eie oë het ons Hom in al sy majesteit gesien. 17 Hy het van God die Vader eer en heerlikheid ontvang toe die Allerhoogste Majesteit gesê het: “Dit is my geliefde Seun oor wie Ek My verheug.”t 18 Die stem uit die hemel het ons self gehoor toe ons saam met Hom op die heilige berg was. 19 En dit het vir ons die boodskap van die profete nog meer bevestig. Hierdie boodskap is soos 'n lamp wat in 'n donker plek skyn. Julle sal goed doen as julle in sy lig bly totdat die dag aanbreek en die môrester opkom in julle harte.
20 Dít veral moet julle weet: geen profesie in die Skrif kan op grond van eie insig reg uitgelê word nie, 21 want geen profesie is ooit deur die wil van 'n mens voortgebring nie. Nee, deur die Heilige Gees meegevoer, het mense die woord wat van God kom, verkondig.
2 Peter 1
1 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:2 May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.5 For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence),6 And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety),7 And in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love.8 For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).9 For whoever lacks these qualities is blind, [spiritually] shortsighted, seeing only what is near to him, and has become oblivious [to the fact] that he was cleansed from his old sins.10 Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.11 Thus there will be richly and abundantly provided for you entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.12 So I intend always to remind you about these things, although indeed you know them and are firm in the truth that [you] now [hold].13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle (tent, body), to stir you up by way of remembrance,14 Since I know that the laying aside of this body of mine will come speedily, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.15 Moreover, I will diligently endeavor [to see to it] that [even] after my departure (decease) you may be able at all times to call these things to mind.16 For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty (grandeur, authority of sovereign power).17 For when He was invested with honor and glory from God the Father and a voice was borne to Him by the [splendid] Majestic Glory [in the bright cloud that overshadowed Him, saying], This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased and delight,18 We [actually] heard this voice borne out of heaven, for we were together with Him on the holy mountain.19 And we have the prophetic word [made] firmer still. You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place, until the day breaks through [the gloom] and the Morning Star rises (comes into being) in your hearts.20 [Yet] first [you must] understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is [a matter] of any personal or private or special interpretation (loosening, solving).21 For no prophecy ever originated because some man willed it [to do so--it never came by human impulse], but men spoke from God who were borne along (moved and impelled) by the Holy Spirit.