2 Peter 1:5
And [for] this same [reason] also, having brought in all diligence, supplement your faith with virtue, and with virtue—knowledge,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
In Context
6and with knowledge—self-control, and with self-control—endurance, and with endurance—piety,
Cross References
Joshua 7:3and they return to Joshua, and say to him, “Do not let all the people go up; let about two thousand men, or about three thousand men, go up, and they strike Ai; do not cause all the people to labor there; for they [are] few.”
Proverbs 4:23Above every charge keep your heart, || For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
Zechariah 6:15And the far-off come in, and they have built in the temple of YHWH, and you have known that YHWH of Hosts has sent me to you, indeed, it has come to pass, if you certainly listen to the voice of your God YHWH.”
Luke 24:21and we were hoping that it is He who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing today since these things happened.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not become children in the understanding, but in the evil be children, and in the understanding become perfect;
Ephesians 5:17do not become fools because of this, but—understanding what [is] the will of the LORD,
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 →