We are partakers of the divine nature

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2 Peter 1:

2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature [G5449], having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
Peter contrasted between divine nature and sinful desire.

Strong's Greek: 5449. φύσις (phusis) — 14 Occurrences

HELPS Word-studies:

5449 phýsis – properly, inner nature, the underlying constitution or make-up of someone (something).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

  1. the nature of things, the force, laws, order, of nature; as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse
  2. birth, physical origin
  3. a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature
  4. the sum of innate properties and powers by which one person differs from others
Jesus has a divine nature and we are imitators of him and partakers of his divine nature.
 
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