2 Peter 1:5
And bring ye in all busyness, and minister in your faith (with) virtue, and in virtue cunning, (or knowing), [or science], (or and with virtue knowledge);
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
In Context
Cross References
Joshua 7:3and they turned again, and said to him, All the people go not up thither, but two either three thousand of men go, and do away the city, (or and they returned, and said to him, All the people do not need to go up there, but only two or three thousand men need to go, and do away the city); why shall all the people be travailed in vain against (such) full few enemies?
Proverbs 4:23With all (safe) keeping keep thine heart (safe), for life cometh forth of it (or for life cometh forth from it).
Zechariah 6:15And they that be far, shall come, and build in the temple of the Lord; and ye shall know, that the Lord of hosts sent me to you. Soothly this thing shall be, if by hearing ye shall hear the voice of your Lord God. (And they who be far, shall come, and help to rebuild the Temple of the Lord; and then ye shall know, that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to you. Truly this shall be, if by hearing ye shall obey the voice of the Lord your God.)
Luke 24:21But we hoped, that he should have again-bought Israel, (or And we had hoped, that he would have redeemed, or ransomed, Israel). And now on all these things the third day is today, that these things were done.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, do not ye be made children in wits, (or Brothers, do not be made like children in your minds, or in your thoughts), but in malice be ye children; but in wits be ye perfect.
Ephesians 5:17Therefore do not ye be made unwise, but understanding which is the will of God [or of the Lord]. (And so do not be made unwise, but rather seek understanding of what is God’s will.)
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 →