2 Peter 1:5
And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
In Context
6And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness;
Cross References
Joshua 7:3And returning they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain against enemies that are very few?
Proverbs 4:23With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
Zechariah 6:15And they that are far off, shall come and shall build in the temple of the Lord: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts sent me to you. But this shall come to pass, if hearing you will hear the voice of the Lord your God.
Luke 24:21But we hoped, that it was he that should have redeemed Israel: and now besides all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.
Ephesians 5:17Wherefore become not unwise, but understanding what is the will of God.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:2-5
Second Peter The penman of this epistle appears plainly to be the same who wrote the foregoing; and, whatever difference some learned men apprehend they discern in the style of this epistle from that of the former, this cannot be a sufficient argument to assert that it was written by Simon who succeeded the apostle James in the church at Jerusalem, inasmuch as he who wrote this epistle calls himself Simon Peter, and an apostle ( v. 1 ), and says that he was one of the three apostles that were present at Christ's… Read the whole commentary →