2 Peter 1:5
For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge,
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
In Context
6and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,
Cross References
Luke 24:21"But we were hoping that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this is the third day since these things happened.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.
Ephesians 5:17For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord’s will 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 →