2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, perseverance, and in perseverance, piety,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
In Context
7and in piety, brotherly affection, and in brotherly affection, love.
Cross References
Genesis 5:24And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Isaiah 57:1The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].
Luke 21:19In your perseverance ye gain your souls.
Romans 2:7to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality--eternal life--
Romans 8:25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience.
1 Corinthians 9:25And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:6-12
Spiritual Diligence; Advancement in Holiness. ( a. d. 67.) 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see… Read the whole commentary →