2 Peter 1:5
For this same reason, do everything you can! Add to your trust in God, goodness; add to goodness, knowledge;
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
In Context
6add to knowledge, self-control; add to self-control, patience; add to patience, reverence;
Cross References
Joshua 7:3When they returned they told Joshua, “The whole army isn't needed. Two or three thousand men is enough to go and attack Ai. Don't bother sending everyone—there's only a few of them.”
Proverbs 4:23Most of all, protect your mind, for everything in life flows from it.
Zechariah 6:15People who live in distant lands will come and build the Temple of the Lord, and you will know that the Lord Almighty sent me to you. This will happen if you listen attentively to what the Lord tells you.
Luke 24:21We had hoped he was the one who was going to rescue Israel. It's been three days now since all this happened.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers and sisters, don't think like children. Be as innocent as babies in regard to evil, but be grown up in your understanding.
Ephesians 5:17So don't be ignorant—find out 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 →