2 Peter 1:5
Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
In Context
Cross References
Joshua 7:3And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither; for they are but few.
Proverbs 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
Zechariah 6:15And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your God.
Luke 24:21But we hoped that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yea and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things came to pass.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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 →