2 Peter 1:5

So for this very reason, making every effort, to your faith add excellence, and to the excellence knowledge,

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And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

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4through which He has granted to us such precious and extraordinary promises, so that through these you may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the depravity that is in the world because of lust.

6and to the knowledge self-control, and to the self-control perseverance, and to the perseverance godliness,

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Cross References

Luke 24:21And we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel! Further, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children—well, in malice be ‘infants’, but in thinking be adults.

Ephesians 5:17That is why you must not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will 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 →

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