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2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers, do your best to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you will not stumble.

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In The King James Version

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

In Context

9But whoever lacks these things is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten he has been cleansed from his past sins.

11In this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Psalms 15:5He does not charge interest when he lends money. 1 He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. 1 He who does these things will never be shaken.

Psalms 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation; 1 he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved. 1

Psalms 112:6For he will never be moved; 1 the righteous person will be remembered forever. 1

Isaiah 56:2Blessed is the man that does this, and who holds it tightly. 1 He observes the Sabbath, not defiling it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.” 1

Matthew 7:24Therefore, everyone who hears my words and obeys them will be like a wise man who built his house upon a rock.

Acts 20:24But I do not consider my life is valuable to myself, if only I may finish the race and complete the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

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 →

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