American Standard Version (ASV):
for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
King James Version (KJV):
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:
King James Version (KJV):
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
American Standard Version (ASV):
For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
King James Version (KJV):
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
American Standard Version (ASV):
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
King James Version (KJV):
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
American Standard Version (ASV):
and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.
King James Version (KJV):
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
American Standard Version (ASV):
and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;
King James Version (KJV):
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
American Standard Version (ASV):
Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;
King James Version (KJV):
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
American Standard Version (ASV):
whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.
King James Version (KJV):
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
American Standard Version (ASV):
seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;
King James Version (KJV):
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
American Standard Version (ASV):
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and [the] Saviour Jesus Christ:
King James Version (KJV):
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: