{
    "translation": "King James Version",
    "abbreviation": "kjv",
    "lang": "en",
    "language": "English",
    "direction": "LTR",
    "encoding": "UTF-8",
    "book_nr": 61,
    "book_name": "2 Peter",
    "chapter": 1,
    "name": "2 Peter 1",
    "verses": [
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 1,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:1",
            "text": "Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 2,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:2",
            "text": "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 3,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:3",
            "text": "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 4,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:4",
            "text": "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 5,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:5",
            "text": "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 6,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:6",
            "text": "And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 7,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:7",
            "text": "And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 8,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:8",
            "text": "For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 9,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:9",
            "text": "But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 10,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:10",
            "text": "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 11,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:11",
            "text": "For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 12,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:12",
            "text": "Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 13,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:13",
            "text": "Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 14,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:14",
            "text": "Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 15,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:15",
            "text": "Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 16,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:16",
            "text": "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 17,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:17",
            "text": "For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 18,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:18",
            "text": "And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 19,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:19",
            "text": "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 20,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:20",
            "text": "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 21,
            "name": "2 Peter 1:21",
            "text": "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. "
        }
    ]
}