2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.

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In The King James Version

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

In Context

9For he who lacks these things is blind, being so myopic, having forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

11Because in this way you will be granted the abundant entrance into the unending kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:24“Therefore whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will compare him to a prudent man who built his house on the bedrock;

Acts 20:24However none of this moves me, nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, just so that I may complete my course with joy, even the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly proclaim the Good News 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 →

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