1:1 From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a ...

1 He assures them of the certainty of Christ's coming to judgment, against those scorners who dispute against it;. 8 warning the godly, for the long patience of ...

1:17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory: “This is my dear Son, in whom I am ...

[1:19] tn “To this” is a relative pronoun in Greek. The second half of v. 19 is thus a relative clause. Literally it reads “to which you do well if you pay ...

[1] In the Greek, of this tabernacle; i.e. of the body. ... Since in ancient Greece, athletic training and competition, or gymnastics ... Book Hou... 2 Corinthians.

Now, using the same catch phrase found in the Greek text of 1 ... gymnastics which regards the text as ... book. Hence, what looks to be suspect because of ...

He does not mean apotheosis (man becoming a god) in the pagan sense, but rather that believers have an organic connection with God. Because of such a connection ...

Those gymnastic exercises, so highly esteemed among the Greeks, are but little worth; they are but of short duration; they refer only to this life, and to ...

2:20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in ...

The almost casual exchange between “God” and “Christ” in this little book, and elsewhere in the NT, argues strongly for the deity of Christ (see esp. 1:1).