2 Peter 1:5

And hervnto geve all diligence: in youre fayth minister vertve and in vertue knowledge

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

4by the meanes whereof are geven vnto vs excellent and moste greate promises that by the helpe of them ye shuld be partakers of the godly nature in that ye flye the corrupcion of worldy lust.

6and in knowledge temperancy and in temrancy pacience in pacience godlynes

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Cross References

Luke 24:21But we trusted that it shuld have bene he that shuld have delyvered Israel. And as touchynge all these thinges to daye is even the thyrd daye that they were done.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren be not chyldre in witte. How be it as concerninge maliciousnes be chyldre: but in witte be perfet.

Ephesians 5:17Wherfore be ye not vnwyse but vnderstonde what the will of the Lorde 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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