Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to the ones equally precious with us, having obtained faith in the righteousness of our God and our Savior, Jesus Christ:
In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell in safety. And this is the name with which one shall call on her: JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
And the names of the twelve apostles are these: First, Simon who is called Peter and his brother Andrew, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John,
And walking beside the sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon being called Peter and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers.
But having the same spirit of faith, according to the thing having been written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak, LXX-Psa. 115:1; MT-Psa. 116:10
taking recollection of the unfeigned faith in you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that it is also in you.
so that the testing of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, but being tested through fire, may be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Therefore to you, the ones believing, belongs the preciousness. But to disobeying ones, He is the “Stone which the ones building rejected; this One became the Head of the Corner,” Psa. 118:22
through which have been given as a gift to us the very great and precious promises, so that through these we might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world by lust.
Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the ones called in God the Father, having been sanctified, and having been kept to Jesus Christ: