2 Peter 1:5
For this very reason, give all diligence to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Revised King James 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 perseverance; and to perseverance godliness;
Cross References
Luke 24:21But we trusted that it was he who would redeem Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things happened.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, do not be children in understanding: in evil be infants, but in understanding be men.
Ephesians 5:17Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord 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 →