1. Symeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of equal value to ours through the righteousness of our God and savior Jesus Christ:
2. may grace and peace be yours in abundance through knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
3. His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and power.
4. Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.