To Believers:

#GRACE AND PEACE TO THOSE OF YOU YOU WHO KNOW OF GOD and JESUS CHRIST:

It is by grace that we have been given great and precious promises.We can one day experience life as part of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world, because of human lust.

Because we have this promise, we need to diligently add virtue to our faith.

We are called to moral excellency, hard as that can be. We need to continue gaining in knowledge, and self-control. We need to work on perseverance, godliness, and kindness.

In addition to our faith, we need to add charity, giving to others.

If you have all of those things, you will not be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He who lacks the things I've listed is shortsighted, practically blind. He's forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Believers, are you sure you were called out of darkness? Were you chosen to be given grace, even though you didn't deserve it? Do the above things, and you will never stumble.

It is for all believers; an entrance will be supplied to us abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of Christ Jesus.

For this reason I'll try to remind you of these things, though you already know, and are established in the present truth.

As long as I am in this place, to stir you by reminding you, even though I must one day leave this tent, just as Christ showed me.
Also, I will be sure that you always have a reminder of these things after I decease.

2nd Peter 1... my interpretation...