2 Peter 1:5

Yes, and for this very reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge,

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions.

6knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,

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Cross References

Luke 24:21But we were hoping that he was the Destined Deliverer of Israel; yes, and besides all this, it is now three days since these things occurred.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.

Ephesians 5:17Therefore do not grow thoughtless, but try to understand what the Lord’s will 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 →

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