2 Peter 1:5

And, while ye apply all diligence in the matter, add to your faith moral excellence; and to moral excellence, knowledge;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4wherein he hath given you very great and precious promises; that by them ye might become partakers of the nature of God, while ye flee from the corruptions of the lusts that are in the world.

6and to knowledge, perseverance; and to perseverance, patience; and to patience, the fear of God;

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Cross References

Luke 24:21But we expected that he was to deliver Israel. And lo, three days have passed, since all these things occurred.

1 Corinthians 14:20My brethren, be ye not children in your thoughts; but to evil things be ye infants; and in your thoughts be men.

Ephesians 5:17Therefore, be not lacking in understanding; but understand ye what is the pleasure of God.

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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