2 Peter 1:4
Through these he has given us his promises, precious and greater than any other, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, now that you have escaped the decay that desire has brought into the world.
Treated in 27 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The God of All Comfort ·
Conformed to the Image of Christ cites 2 Peter 1:4
…be the firstborn among many brothers. We are to be “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4) with Christ; we are to be filled with the spirit of Christ; we are to share His…
- The Mortification of Sin in Believers ·
The necessity of mortification: the duty of the best believers cites 2 Pet. i. 4
…its kind — The Spirit and new nature given to contend against indwelling sin, Gal. v. 17; 2 Pet. i. 4, 5; Rom. vii. 23 — The fearful issue of the neglect of mortification, Rev. iii. 2; Heb.…
- Old Paths ·
Having the Spirit cites 2 Peter i. 4
…while we are alive. We must “sow to the Spirit,” if we would ever reap life everlasting. (2 Peter i. 4; Gal. vi. 8.) (c) Remember, for another thing, if you have not the Spirit, you have no…
- How to Bring Men to Christ ·
Dealing with the Willful and the Deluded cites 2 Peter i. 4
…of the new birth. What the new birth is, is shown in Ezek. xxxvi. 25‒27; 2 Cor. v. 17; 2 Peter i. 4. Many Roman Catholics understand the new birth to mean baptism, but it can be easily…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The New Birth cites 2 Pet. 1:4
…and clear a definition of the New Birth as we can find in the Word of God is given in 2 Pet. 1:4, "Whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through…
- All Things for Good ·
The best things work for good to the godly cites 2 Pet. i. 4
…and is not the milk for the good of the infant? They are called “precious promises” (2 Pet. i. 4). They are as cordials to a soul that is ready to faint. The promises are full of virtue.…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.2 The Second Commandment cites 2 Pet 1: 4
…am the Lord which sanctify you.’ Lev 20: 8. This is the partaking of the divine nature. 2 Pet 1: 4. God’s Spirit is a spirit of consecration; though it sanctify us but in part, yet it is…
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit ·
The Regenerating Work of the Holy Spirit cites 2 Peter 1:4
…is the impartation of a new nature, God's nature to the one who is born again (2 Peter 1:4). Every human being is born into this world with a perverted nature; his whole…
- Practical Religion ·
Charity cites 2 Pet. i. 4
…with Christ and sonship to God; and one of the first features of that nature is love. (2 Pet. i. 4.) Such a heart is deeply convinced of sin, hates it, flees from it, and fights with it…
- The Key Teachings of Athanasius of Alexandria ·
That We Might Be Made God cites 2 PETER 1:4
…of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 PETER 1:4 Near the end of On the Incarnation, having laid out his whole argument, Athanasius…
- The Key Teachings of Charles H. Spurgeon ·
The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith cites 2 PETER 1:4
…great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature. 2 PETER 1:4 In the late 1880s, in the middle of the hardest years of his life, Spurgeon published a…
- The Key Teachings of R. A. Torrey ·
Justified and Born Again cites 2 PETER 1:4
…of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 PETER 1:4 We are all born with a corrupted nature, blind to the things of God. In the new birth God…
- The Key Teachings of John Bunyan ·
Doubting Castle and the Key Called Promise cites 2 PETER 1:4
…great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature. 2 PETER 1:4 Hopeful says, good news, brother; pluck it out and try. The key turns the lock of the…
- The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter ·
The Life of Faith cites 2 PETER 1:4
…great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature. 2 PETER 1:4 His counsel was to gather promises deliberately — to know where they are, to write them…
- Evening by Evening ·
June cites 2 Peter 1:4
…is vanity!” June 26 “Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” (2 Peter 1:4) Vanish forever all thought of indulging the flesh if you would live in the power of your…
- Morning by Morning ·
July cites 2 Peter 1:4
…very naturally go hand in hand. July 27 “Exceeding great and precious promises.” (2 Peter 1:4) If you would know experimentally the preciousness of the promises, and enjoy them in…
- Morning by Morning ·
September cites 2 Peter 1:4
…be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” September 16 “Partakers of the divine nature.” (2 Peter 1:4) To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be.…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 11 — Of Justification by Faith cites 2 Pet. 1:4
…great and precious promises, that by them ye might be partakers of the divine nature,” (2 Pet. 1:4); as if we now were what the gospel promises we shall be at the final advent of Christ…
- The Ten Commandments ·
4.3 The Word cites 2 Pet 1: 4
…of the divine nature, and to have something conceived in us which is of the Holy Ghost. 2 Pet 1: 4. When the word is thus copied out into our hearts, and we are changed into its…
- Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards ·
God Glorified in Man’s Dependence cites 2 Pet. i. 4
…upon their souls: they are made partakers of the divine nature, or moral image of God, 2 Pet. i. 4. They are holy by being made partakers of God’s holiness, Heb. xii. 10. The saints are…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
Christian Perfection cites 2 Pet. 1:4
…[Phil. 2:7] — but not any one attribute, not any one circumstance of the divine nature. [2 Pet. 1:4] Neither is it for them to know the times and seasons [Acts 1:7] when God will work his…
- Holiness ·
The Church Which Christ Builds cites 2 Pet. i. 4
…Gospel can hold out to all who come to Christ, “exceeding great and precious promises.” (2 Pet. i. 4.) We can offer boldly to you, in our Master’s name, the peace of God which passeth all…
- Holiness ·
Thirst Relieved cites 2 Pet. i. 4
…short, as St. Peter says, “There are given to us exceeding great and precious promises.” (2 Pet. i. 4.) He who has mercifully caused all Holy Scripture to be written for our learning has…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 25 — Of the Last Resurrection cites 2 Pet. 1:4
…for which believers are called is, that they may be “partakers of the divine nature,” (2 Pet. 1:4). How so? Because “he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 16 — Pædobaptism cites 2 Pet. 1:4
…gods by regeneration, but that they are gods to whom the word of God is sent (John 10:35; 2 Pet. 1:4), a thing not possible to infant children. The attributing of deity to believers is one…
- Old Paths ·
The Holy Ghost cites 2 Pet. i. 4
…We must be made “partakers of the divine nature,” by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. (2 Pet. i. 4.) The Spirit must sanctify our carnal natures, and make them love spiritual things. The…
- Knots Untied ·
Regeneration cites 2 Peter i. 4
…(1 Peter ii. 9.) And the second Epistle, as “being made partakers of the Divine nature.” (2 Peter i. 4.) The First Epistle of John calls it “a passing from death to life.” (1 John iii. 14.)…