2 Peter 1:8
For if these things belong to you and are increasing, it makes you neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
7and with godliness brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
Cross References
Matthew 13:22But the seed sown in the thorns is he who hears the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches chokes out the word, and it becomes fruitless.
Matthew 20:6And about the eleventh hour, going out he found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’
John 5:42But I have known you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
John 15:6If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
1 Corinthians 15:58So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 8:2how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their generosity.
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 →