2 Peter 1:10

Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

In Context

9But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

11For thus will an entrance be given you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:24Therefore, whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the rock:

Acts 20:24But I esteem this a matter of no importance, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

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 →

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