632, Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord (2 Pt 3:18)
2 Pt 1:2, Phil 3:8, Jn 17:3, Jn 20:31, 1 Cor 1:24, Eph 1:10, Eph 3:8, Col 1:27, Col 2:2
We must grow in the knowledge of Christ. The more we come to know Christ, the more grace and peace we have. (2 Peter 3:18, 2 Pet 1:2)
2 Pt 3:18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
2 Pt 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
To know Jesus Christ is eternal life and the highest knowledge. Christ is the power, wisdom, and mystery of God. (Jn 20:31, Jn 17:3, Phil 3:8, 1 Cor 1:24, Col 2:2)
Jn 20:31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
Jn 17:3 nd this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Phil 3:8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
1 Cor 1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Col 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Everything is united in Christ. (Eph 1:10)
Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
We must bring this mystery of Christ to the Gentiles. (Eph 3:8, Col 1:27)
Eph 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: