MODERN LITERAL VERSION

1:1 Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are allotted an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
1:2 may grace and peace be multiplied to you* in the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

1:3 As his divine* power has been bestowed to us as a gift, (all things pertaining to life and godliness*), through the full knowledge of him who called us through glory and virtue;
1:4 through which he has bestowed to us as a gift his precious and greatest promises; that* through these you* might become partners of the divine* nature, having escaped the corruption in the world with its lust.

1:5 Now also for this same reason, besides having brought in all diligence, supply in your* faith, virtue, and in your * virtue, knowledge
1:6 and in your * knowledge, self-control, and in your * self-control, endurance, and in your * endurance, godliness*;
1:7 and in your * godliness*, brotherly-love, and in your * brotherly-love, love*.
1:8 For* if these things exist and increase in you*, none designate you* idle or unfruitful toward the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9 For* the one is blind in whom these things are not present*, being short-sighted, having forgetfulness of the cleansing from his old sins.
1:10 Hence brethren, be diligent to make* your* calling and choice steadfast; for* if you* are doing these things, you* may never* trip;
1:11 for* so the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you*.

1:12 Hence I will not neglect to remind you* habitually concerning these things, although you* know them and have been established in the present* truth.
1:13 But I deemed it righteous, inasmuch as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you* in a reminder;
1:14 knowing that the removal of my tabernacle is coming quickly, just-as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.
1:15 But, I will also be diligent to have these things in remembrance for you* every-time after my exodus.
1:16 For* we did not follow wisely devised fables, when we made known to you* the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we became eyewitnesses of his majesty.
1:17 For* he received honor and glory from God the Father when such a voice was carried to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted.
1:18 And we heard this voice being carried from heaven, being with him in the holy mountain.
1:19 And we have the steadfast prophetic word; to which you* are doing well and taking-heed, (as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day might dawn and the {F} morning-star might rise) in your* hearts.
1:20 Knowing this first, that every prophecy of Scripture does not come* from one's own interpretation.
1:21 For* no prophecy was ever brought about by the will of man, but the holy men of God spoke the word being carried by the Holy Spirit.
{Footnotes: 2Pet 1:19 Or Venus; literally ‘light-bearer'; metaphorically Jesus.}