2 Peter 1:5

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, your virtue with knowledge,

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

In Context

4Through these he has given us his precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

6your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness,

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Cross References

Luke 24:21But we had hoped that he was the one who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, today is now the third day since these things happened.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not be childish in your way of thinking. Rather, as to malice be infants, but in your way of thinking be mature.

Ephesians 5:17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand 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 →

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