2 Peter 1:6
your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness,
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
In Context
7your godliness with brotherly affection, and your brotherly affection with love.
Cross References
Luke 21:19You must gain your lives by your patient endurance.
Romans 2:7To those who by patient endurance in good works seek glory, honor, and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Romans 8:25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patient endurance.
1 Corinthians 9:25Every athlete who competes exercises self-control in all things. They do so to receive a perishable wreath, but we do so to receive an imperishable crown.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:6-12
Spiritual Diligence; Advancement in Holiness. ( a. d. 67.) 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see… Read the whole commentary →