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Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
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Knowledge Fuels Grace
Commentators unanimously agree that Peter is not just offering a standard greeting. He teaches that God's grace and peace are not static but can be multiplied in a believer's life. The key to this increase is a growing, deepening knowledge of God and Jesus Christ. As one scholar notes, the more we know of God, the more our enjoyment of grace and peace will be multiplied.
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2 Peter
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. That is, grace and peace abound to us, or may …
Be multiplied (πληθυνθειη). First aorist passive optative of πληθυνω in a wish for the future (volitive use) as in [Reference 1 Pe…
19th Century
Anglican
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you.—This phrase is identical to the last clause of 1 Peter 1:2 and is found in no other gr…
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Baptist
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you-
You have some measure of these choice blessings; may you have a great many times as much! W…
The first seven words of this verse are identical with 1 Peter 1:2b (see comment there), but here the words “through the knowledge of G…
16th Century
Protestant
Grace and peace. By grace, God’s paternal favor towards us is designated. We have indeed been reconciled to God once for all by the death …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you By a multiplication of grace may be meant a larger discovery of the love and …
Faith unites the weak believer to Christ as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every since…
