2 Peter 1:5
even for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,
Noyes 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 endurance, and to endurance godliness,
Cross References
Proverbs 4:23More than any thing which thou watchest, watch thy heart; For from it goeth forth life.
Zechariah 6:15And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah, your God.
Luke 24:21But we are hoping that it is he who is to redeem Israel; moreover, besides all this, it is the third day since these things were done.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, do not become children in understanding; yet in malice be children, but in understanding be men.
Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord 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 →