2 Peter 1:5

And to this giving all diligence, add to your faith fortitude;

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4by which are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

6and to fortitude knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience piety;

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Cross References

Luke 24:21But we hoped that it was He that would have delivered Israel: and besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done.

1 Corinthians 14:20My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.

Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be not thoughtless, but consider what is the will of the Lord.

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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