2 Peter 1:6

and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

In Context

5so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

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Cross References

Luke 21:19By your patient endurance, preserve your lives.

Romans 2:7to those who, by patient continuance in good works, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life:

Romans 8:25But if we hope for that which we see not we wait for it with patience.

1 Corinthians 9:25Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.

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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