Lent · Ash Wednesday
2 Peter 1:2-11
Making One’s Calling and Election Sure
February 18, 2026
Overview & Insights
“Be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election.” (2 Peter 1:10)
The opening of 2 Peter is along the conventional lines of a NT letter, giving sender, addressees, greeting (see commentary on Jude 1 and Additional Notes on Jude 1–2). The sender identifies himself as Simon Peter . Most Greek MSS of 2 Peter transliterate the sender’s first name as Symeōn , the Hebrew form applied to Simon Peter elsewhere in the NT only in Acts 15:14, in the appropriate Jewish-Christian setting of the Council of Jerusalem.
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Commentary
2 Peter 1 - Enduring Word Bible Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik
David Guzik on God's divine power for godliness and the qualities that make one's calling sure.
2 Peter 1 Resources Precept Austin
Verse-level notes and word studies on partaking of the divine nature and adding to faith.
2 Peter 1:2 Commentaries BibleHub
Classic commentators gathered on grace and peace multiplied through knowledge of God.
Background & Word Study
2 Peter - Enter the Bible Enter the Bible
Background on 2 Peter's authorship debate, purpose, and emphasis on growth in godliness.
Book of 2 Peter Overview BibleProject
Animated overview of 2 Peter's call to spiritual maturity and its warning against false teachers.
Holiness (theme) BibleProject
A theme study fitting 2 Peter's summons to participate in the divine nature and grow in godliness.
2 Peter 1:2 Interlinear BibleHub
Greek text with parsing for the chain of virtues from faith to love.
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What does 2 Peter urge?
Having received precious promises, believers are to add to their faith virtue, knowledge, self-control, and love, making their calling and election sure.
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