2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:

Revised King James New Testament

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 he who lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

11For in this way an entrance shall be abundantly provided for you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:24Therefore, whoever hears these words of mine, and does them, will be like a wise man, who built his house upon a rock:

Acts 20:24But I do not count my life as precious to myself, so that I might finish my course, and the ministry, which I have 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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