2 Peter 1 1 – 11

2 Kefa 1 1-11
From: Shim‘on Kefa (Simon Peter), a slave and emissary of Yeshua the Messiah

To: Those who, through the righteousness of our God and of our Deliverer Yeshua the Messiah, have been given the same kind of trust as ours:

May grace and shalom be yours in full measure, as you come to a full knowledge of God and Yeshua our Lord.

God’s power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness. By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in God’s nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world.

For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away. Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble. Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah.

Devotional

This letter is addressed to the Messianic Gentile believers who, along with Messianic Jews, are considered righteous before God because of their trust.

Faith(emunah) saves, but not as a passive spectator for our salvation, which causes one to be “barren and unfruitful.” The only way to be certain one will enter the eternal kingdom of Yeshua, our Lord and Deliverer, is to allow God to work through the believer, developing the qualities listed in verses 5-7.