2 Peter 1:5
Yes, and for this reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
In Context
6knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,
Cross References
Joshua 7:3and came back to Joshua, saying, “All the nation need not go up. Let only about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make all the nation toil up there, for there are few people at Ai.”
Zechariah 6:15People from far away will come and build in 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 that he was the Destined Deliverer of Israel; yes, and besides all this, it is now three days since these things occurred.
1 Corinthians 14:20My friends, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves adults.
Ephesians 5:17Therefore do not grow thoughtless, but try to 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 →