- Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, (2 Pt 1:2)
Hos 2:20, Hos 6:3, Jn 17:3,25, Phil 3:8, 2 Pt 1:8, 2 Pt 2:20, 2 Pt 3:18, 1 Jn 5:20, Jn 17:21
The Old Testament tells us to strive to know the Lord. (Hos 6:3)
Hos 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
When we deeply know that Jesus is the Christ, we come to know God more. (Jn 17:3,25, 1Jn 5:20, Jn 17:21)
Jn 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
1 Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Jn 17:21 That 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.
The more we know God and Jesus, the more grace and peace we receive. (2 Pt 1:2)
2 Pt 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
The knowledge of Christ Jesus is the noblest. (Phil 3:8)
Phil 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
We are to grow in the knowledge of Christ. (2 Pt 3:18)
2 Pt 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.