1:2

Grace and peace: This was a common greeting among Christians at that time (see also 1 Peter 1:2). It may be necessary for you to translate peace differently according to the context. Here peace means “peace in the heart.”

be multiplied to you: Peter was asking God to continue to give them grace and peace in increasing quantities.

knowledge: This is one of the major themes of the letter. Peter may have been thinking of false teachers who insisted that in order for God to save people, those people needed special secret knowledge. However Peter said that what people really need is to know God and Jesus Christ. See also 1:3, 1:5, 1:6, 1:8, 2:20, and 3:18.

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