Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you2f might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord - Kurios, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit [Ruach] of the Lord - Kurios.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God-The Father, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit [Ruach] shall of the Spirit [Ruach] reap life everlasting.
Shim’on [he has heard] Kefa [pebble] [pebble], a slave and an apostle of Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God-The Father and our Saviour Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah]:
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament (a covenant, ratified in death), that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament (a covenant, ratified in death), they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Now to Avraham [Exalted Father] and his seed were the promises made. He says not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to youri seed, which is Moshiach [Messiah].
Who are Yisra’eli’s; to whom [pertains] the sonship, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God-The Father], and the promises;
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God-The Father, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Moshiach [Messiah]:
Pure religion and undefiled before God-The Father and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
The Lord - Kurios is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward (in custody, with a guard; prison), not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.