2 Peter 1:5
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
In Context
6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
Cross References
Joshua 7:3On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
Proverbs 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Zechariah 6:15Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
Luke 24:21But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, today is the third day since these things took place.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Ephesians 5:17Therefore do 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 →