Make Your Calling and Election Secure

For if[a] these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing[b] of his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because if you[c] do these things, you will never ever stumble.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:8 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as conditional
  2. 2 Peter 1:9 Literally “receiving forgetfulness of the cleansing”
  3. 2 Peter 1:10 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“do”) which is understood as conditional