2 Peter 1:5
And this same also — all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
Young's Literal Translation
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 turn back unto Joshua, and say unto him, 'Let not all the people go up; let about two thousand men, or about three thousand men, go up, and they smite Ai; cause not all the people to labour thither; for they [are] few.'
Proverbs 4:23Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
Zechariah 6:15And the far-off come in, and they have built in the temple of Jehovah, and ye have known that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me unto you, yea, it hath come to pass, if ye do certainly hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God.'
Luke 24:21and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
Ephesians 5:17because of this become not fools, but — understanding 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 →