Passage
Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!
2 Peter 1:2 (YLT)
Nearby Context
2 Peter 1:1 Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:
2 Peter 1:2 Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!
2 Peter 1:3 As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
2 Peter 1:4 through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "grace", "peace", "multiplied", "acknowledgement", "jesus", and "lord". It is saying that salvation is received as God's gift through faith, so boasting is pushed out by the wording itself.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Simeon Peter a servant and an apostle..." into verse 3's "As all things to us His divine...", so "grace" and "peace" belong inside that flow. In 2 Peter context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "grace" and "peace" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.