2 Peter 1:8
For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Text-Critical English NT
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In Context
7your godliness with brotherly affection, and your brotherly affection with love.
Cross References
Matthew 13:22The seed sown among the thorns is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Matthew 20:6About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’
John 5:42But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.
John 15:6If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown out like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
1 Corinthians 15:58So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
2 Corinthians 8:2During a severe trial of affliction, their abundant joy and their deep poverty abounded in a wealth of generosity on their part.
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 →