2 Peter 1:6-9
The Message
5-9 So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.
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2 Peter 1:6-8
New International Version
6 and to knowledge, self-control;(A) and to self-control, perseverance;(B) and to perseverance, godliness;(C) 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.(D) 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive(E) in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.(F)
2 Peter 1:6-8
New King James Version
6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control [a]perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and (A)to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither [b]barren (B)nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- 2 Peter 1:6 patience
- 2 Peter 1:8 useless
2 Peter 1:6-8
King James Version
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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