Verse 4

by the meanes whereof are geven vnto vs excellent and moste greate promises that by the helpe of them ye shuld be partakers of the godly nature in that ye flye the corrupcion of worldy lust.

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 12:10 : 10 And they verely for a feaue dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he learneth vs vnto that which is proffitable that we myght receave of his holines.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Derely beloved now are we ye sonnes of God and yet it dothe not appere what we shal be. But we knowe that when it shall appere we shal be lyke him. For we shall se him as he is.
  • 2 Pet 2:18-20 : 18 For when they have spoke the swellinge wordes of vanytie they begyle wt wantanes thorowe yt lustes of the flesshe them that were clene escaped: but now are wrapped in errours. 19 They promys them libertye and are them selves ye bonde servauntes of corrupcion. For of whom soever a man is over come vnto ye same is he in bondage. 20 For yf they after they have escaped from the filthynes of the worlde thorowe ye knowledge of ye Lorde and of ye saviour Iesus Christ they are yet tagled agayne therin and overcome: then is ye latter ende worsse with them then the beginninge.
  • John 1:12-13 : 12 But as meny as receaved him to them he gave power to be the sonnes of God in yt they beleved on his name: 13 which were borne not of bloude nor of the will of the flesshe nor yet of the will of man: but of God.
  • Eph 4:23-24 : 23 and be ye renued in the sprete of youre myndes 24 and put on that newe man which after the ymage of God is shapen in ryghtewesnes and true holynes.
  • Heb 8:6-9 : 6 Now hath he obtayned a more excellent office in as moche as he is the mediator of a better testament which was made for better promyses. 7 For yf that fyrst testament had bene fautelesse: then shuld no place have bene sought for the seconde. 8 For in rebukynge the he sayth: Beholde the dayes will come (sayth the LORde) and I will fynnyshe apon the housse of Israhel and apon the housse of Iuda 9 a newe testament: not lyke the testament that I made with their fathers at that tyme whe I toke them by the hondes to lede them oute of the londe of Egipte for they continued not in my testament and I regarded them not sayth the LORde. 10 For this is the testament that I will make with the housse of Israhell: After those dayes sayth the LORde: I will put my lawes in their myndes and in their hertes I will wryte the and I wilbe their God and they shalbe my people. 11 And they shall not teache every man his neghboure and every man his brother sayinge: knowe the LORde: For they shall knowe me from the lest to the moste of them: 12 For I wilbe mercifull over their vnrightwesnes and on their synnes and on their iniquiries.
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 And for this cause is he the mediator of ye newe testament that thorow deeth which chaunsed for the redempcion of those transgressions that were in ye fyrst testamet) they which were called myght receave the promes of eternall inheritaunce.
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and the new put on which is renued in knowledge after the ymage of him that made him
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 which are the Israelites. To whom pertayneth the adopcion and the glorie and the covenauntes and the law that was geven and the service of God and the promyses:
  • 2 Cor 1:20 : 20 For all the promyses of God in him are ye: and are in him Amen vnto the lawde of God thorow vs.
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all beholde the glorye of the Lorde with his face open and are chaunged vnto the same similitude from glory to glory even of the sprite of the Lorde.
  • 2 Cor 6:17-7:1 : 17 Wherfore come out from amoge the and separate youreselues (sayth the LORde) and touche none vncleane thynge: so wyll I receave you 18 and wilbe a father vnto you and ye shalbe vnto me sonnes and doughters sayth the LORde almyghty. 1 Seynge that we have soche promeses derely beloved let vs clense oure selves from all fylthynes of the flesshe and sprete and growe vp to full holynes in ye feare of God.
  • Gal 3:16 : 16 To Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He sayth not in the seedes as in many: but in thy sede as in one which is Christ.
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 He that soweth in his flesshe shall of ye flesshe reepe corrupcio. But he yt soweth in ye sprete shall of the sprete reepe lyfe everlastinge.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Se that ye love not the worlde nether the thynges that are in the worlde. Yf eny man love the worlde the love of the father is not in him. 16 For all that is in ye worlde (as the lust of the flesshe the lust of the eyes and ye pryde of gooddes) is not of the father: but of ye worlde
  • Jas 4:1-3 : 1 From whence commeth warre and fighttynge amonge you: come they not here hence? even of youre volupteousnes that rayne in youre members. 2 Ye lust and have not. Ye envie and have indignacion and cannot obtayne. Ye fight and warre and have not because ye axe not. 3 Ye axe and receave not because ye axe a mysse: even to consume it apon youre volupteousnes.
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 that he hence forwarde shuld lyve as moche tyme as remayneth in the flesshe: not after ye lustes of men but after the will of God. 3 For it is sufficient for vs that we have spent the tyme that is past of the lyfe after the will of the gentyls walkinge in wantannes lustes dronkennes in eatinge drinkinge and in abominable ydolatrie.
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 ¶ Simon Peter a seruaunt and an Apostle of Iesus Christ to them which have obtayned lyke precious fayth with vs in the rightewesnes that commeth of oure God and savioure Iesus Christ.
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 And this is the promes yt he hath promysed vs even eternall lyfe.