2 favor to you and peace may be multiplied by a knowledge of the God, and of Jesus the Lord of us.

3 As all to us of the divine power of him the things in respect to life and piety having been granted, through the knowledge of the one having called us by means of glory and virtue;

4 (through which the greatest to us and precious promises have been given, so that through these you might become of a divine partakers nature having fled away from the in world, by inordinate desire corruption;)