2 Peter 1:8
These things, unto you, belonging and abounding, neither idle nor unfruitful, constitute you, regarding the personal knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7And, in your godliness, brotherly affection, and, in your brotherly affection, love.
Cross References
Matthew 13:22And, he among the thorns sown, the same, is he that, heareth the word,—and, the anxiety of the age and the deceit of riches, choke up the word, and, unfruitful, it becometh.
Matthew 20:6And, about the eleventh, going forth, he found others, standing, and saith unto them—Why, here, stand ye, all the day, unemployed?
John 5:42But I have taken knowledge of you, that, the love of God, ye have not, in yourselves:—
John 15:6If one abide not me, he is cast out as the branch, and withered, and they gather them,—and, into fire, they cast them, and they are burned.
1 Corinthians 15:58So, then, my beloved brethren,—become ye, steadfast, immovable, superabounding in the work of the Lord, at all times; knowing that, your toil, is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 8:2That, in a great testing of tribulation, the superabounding of their joy and their deep destitution, superabounded 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 →