2 Peter 1:8
For these things, being in you and overflowing, render you neither barren nor unfruitful in the perfect knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
7and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness divine love.
Cross References
Matthew 13:22But the one sown among the thorns, is he who heareth the word; and the care of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke out the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Matthew 20:6And about the eleventh hour having gone out, he found others standing; and says to them, Why stand ye here idle all the day?
John 5:42but I know you that you have not the love of God in you.
John 15:6If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt.
1 Corinthians 15:58So, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 8:2because in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
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 →