2 Peter 1:6

and in your knowledge temperance; and in your temperance patience; and in your patience godliness;

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

In Context

5Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;

7and in your godliness love of the brethren; and in your love of the brethren love.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:24and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Isaiah 57:1The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Luke 21:19In your patience ye shall win your souls.

Romans 2:7to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

Romans 8:25But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

1 Corinthians 9:25And every man that striveth in the games is temperate in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

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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