2 Peter 1:17

Peter recalls the Father honoring Jesus at the Transfiguration with the voice declaring him the beloved Son. It matters because God himself testified to Jesus' identity and approval.

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• Mark 9:7And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
• Matt 17:5While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
• Matt 3:17And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• Luke 3:22And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
• Luke 9:34–35While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
• Mark 1:11And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• Matt 12:18Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
• John 3:35The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
• John 5:26For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
• Isa 42:1Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
• John 12:28–29Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
• 2 Jn 1:3Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
• 2 Cor 1:3Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
• Luke 10:22All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
• 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
• John 5:36–37But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
• John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• Jude 1:1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
• John 5:21–23For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
• John 6:39And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
• John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• John 10:36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
• John 20:17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
• John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• John 10:15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
• Matt 17:3And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
• Isa 53:10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
• John 14:11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
• John 13:1–3Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
• Matt 11:25–27At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
• John 6:37All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
• Rom 15:6That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Matt 28:19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
• John 14:8–9Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

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