2 Peter 1:4

Through God's great promises believers come to share in the divine nature and escape the world's corruption driven by sinful desire. It matters because the gospel transforms us morally, making us partakers of God's holy character.

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• Eph 4:23–24to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;
• Ezek 36:25–27I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• 2 Cor 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
• Col 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
• Heb 12:10Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
• 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
• 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
• Gal 6:8The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
• John 1:12–13But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
• 2 Pet 2:18–20With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
• Heb 8:6–12Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
• 1 Pet 4:2–3Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• 1 Jn 2:15–16Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Heb 9:15Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
• 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
• 2 Cor 1:20For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
• Gal 3:16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.
• Jas 4:1–3What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Rom 9:4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

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