2 Peter 1:5-9
Legacy Standard Bible
5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith (A)supply (B)moral [a]excellence, and in your moral excellence, (C)knowledge, 6 and in your knowledge, (D)self-control, and in your self-control, (E)perseverance, and in your perseverance, (F)godliness, 7 and in your godliness, [b](G)brotherly kindness, and in your [c]brotherly kindness, [d]love. 8 For if these things are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor (H)unfruitful in the (I)full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For in whom these things are not present, that one is (J)blind, being nearsighted, having [e]forgotten the (K)purification from his former sins.
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- 2 Peter 1:5 Or virtue
- 2 Peter 1:7 Gr philadelphia
- 2 Peter 1:7 Gr philadelphia
- 2 Peter 1:7 Gr agape
- 2 Peter 1:9 Or escaped their notice, cf. 3:5, 8
2 Peter 1:5-9
Lexham English Bible
5 and for this same reason, and by[a] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge, 6 and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness, 7 and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
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8 For if[b] these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing[c] of his former sins.
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- 2 Peter 1:5 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“applying”) which is understood as means
- 2 Peter 1:8 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as conditional
- 2 Peter 1:9 Literally “receiving forgetfulness of the cleansing”
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