2 Peter 1:5
For this very reason, you must apply all zerizut (diligence) to supply emunah with midah hatov (the attribute of virtue), and midah hatov with da'as (knowledge),
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
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Cross References
Joshua 7:3And they returned to Yehoshua, and said unto him, Let not Kol HaAm go up; but let about two or three thousand Ish go up and attack Ai; and weary not kol HaAm there; for they are but few.
Proverbs 4:23Set watch over and guard thy lev with all diligence; 1 for out of it are the totze'ot chayyim (issues, wellsprings of life). + 4:23 cf Mk 7:20-23 1
Zechariah 6:15And they that are far off shall come 1 and build the Heikhal Hashem, 1 and ye shall know that Hashem Tzva'os 1 hath sent me unto you. 1 And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey 1 the kol (voice) Hashem Eloheichem.
Luke 24:21But we were holding the tikvah that he is the one to bring the Geulah of Yisroel. Ken, and besides all this, it is now HaYom HaShlishi vibahlt (since) these things took place.
1 Corinthians 14:20Achim b'Moshiach, be not yeladim in your machsh'vot (thoughts); be infantile in kavvanah ra'ah (malice), perhaps, but in your binah, be mature. + 14:20 Jer 4:22
Ephesians 5:17Therefore, do not be foolish, but have binah of what the ratzon Hashem 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 →