2 Peter 1:10
Because of this, brothers, be all the more diligent, so that by good works you may make certain your calling and election. For in doing these things, you do not sin at any time.
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Psalms 15:5The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup. It is you who will restore my inheritance to me.
Psalms 62:2O God, my God: to you, I keep vigil until first light. For you, my soul has thirsted, to you my body, in so many ways.
Psalms 112:6and who gazes upon the humble things in heaven and on earth?
Isaiah 56:2Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds to this, keeping the Sabbath and not profaning it, guarding his hands and not doing any evil.
Matthew 7:24Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them shall be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.
Acts 20:24But I dread none of these things. Neither do I consider my life to be more precious because it is my own, provided that in some way I may complete my own course and that of the ministry of the Word, which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify 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 →