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2 Peter 1:6

and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Graces;   Holiness;   Meekness;   Patience;   Religion;   Righteousness;   Temperance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christian Graces;   Deterioration-Development;   Development, Spiritual;   Fruit, Spiritual;   Fruitfulness-Unfruitfulness;   Graces, Christian;   Growth, Spiritual;   Patience;   Patience-Impatience;   Self-Control;   Social Duties;   Spiritual;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   The Topic Concordance - Blindness;   Charity;   Godliness;   Kindness;   Kingdom of God;   Knowledge;   Patience;   Stumbling/slipping;   Temperance;   Ungodliness;   Virtue;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Patience;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Godly;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Faith;   Self-discipline;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fruit of the Spirit;   Godly, Godliness;   Perseverance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Godliness;   Obedience;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Assurance;   Godliness;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Peter, the Epistles of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blindness;   Godliness;   Knowledge;   Self-Control;   2 Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Peter, Second Epistle of;   Temperance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Character;   Commandment;   Discipline;   Fruit;   Godliness;   Knowledge;   Patience;   Patience ;   Perseverance;   Peter Epistles of;   Temperance ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Godliness;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Judah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Peter, Second Epistle of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Godliness;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Continency;   Drunkenness;   Know;   Peter, Simon;   Peter, the Second Epistle of;   Self-Control;   Temperance;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 24;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,
King James Version (1611)
And to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godlinesse;
King James Version
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
English Standard Version
and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
New American Standard Bible
and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
New Century Version
and to your knowledge, add self-control; and to your self-control, add patience; and to your patience, add service for God;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
Contemporary English Version
self-control, patience, devotion to God,
Complete Jewish Bible
knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness,
Darby Translation
in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,
Easy-to-Read Version
to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add patience; to your patience add devotion to God;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And with knowledge, temperance: and with temperance, patience: and with patience, godlines:
George Lamsa Translation
And to knowledge, self-control; and to selfcontrol, patience; and to patience; godliness;
Good News Translation
to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness;
Lexham English Bible
and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness,
Literal Translation
and with the knowledge self-control, and with the self-control patience, and with the patience godliness,
Amplified Bible
and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, steadfastness, and in your steadfastness, godliness,
American Standard Version
and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness;
Bible in Basic English
And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
Hebrew Names Version
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
International Standard Version
your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness,
Etheridge Translation
6 but to knowledge perseverance, but to perseverance patience, but to patience godliness [fn]
Murdock Translation
and to knowledge, perseverance; and to perseverance, patience; and to patience, the fear of God;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In knowledge temperaunce, in temperaunce pacience, in pacience godlynesse,
English Revised Version
and in [your] knowledge temperance; and in [your] temperance patience; and in [your] patience godliness;
World English Bible
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and to courage knowledge, And to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience,
Weymouth's New Testament
along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control, power of endurance;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in kunnyng abstinence, in abstynence pacience, in pacience pitee;
Update Bible Version
and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;
Webster's Bible Translation
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
New English Translation
to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;
New King James Version
to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
New Living Translation
and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness,
New Life Bible
As you have a better understanding, be able to say no when you need to. Do not give up. And as you wait and do not give up, live God-like.
New Revised Standard
and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, in your knowledge, self-control, and, in your self-control, endurance, and, in your endurance, godliness,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in patience, godliness:
Revised Standard Version
and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and in knowledge temperancy and in temrancy pacience in pacience godlynes
Young's Literal Translation
and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
in knowlege, temperancy: in temperancy, pacience: in pacience, godlynes:
Mace New Testament (1729)
to knowledge, temperance: to temperance, patience: to patience, piety:
Simplified Cowboy Version
To your wisdom, pile on self-mastery. To self-mastery, add in endurance. To that throw in a feed sack full of godliness,

Contextual Overview

5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. 10Therefore, brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble, 11and you will receive a lavish reception into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

temperance: Acts 24:25, 1 Corinthians 9:25, Galatians 5:23, Titus 1:8, Titus 2:2

patience: Psalms 37:7, Luke 8:15, Luke 21:19, Romans 2:7, Romans 5:3, Romans 5:4, Romans 8:25, Romans 15:4, 2 Corinthians 6:4, Colossians 1:11, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:4, 2 Thessalonians 3:5, Hebrews 6:12, Hebrews 6:15, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 12:1, James 1:3, James 1:4, James 5:7-10, Revelation 1:9, Revelation 2:2, Revelation 13:10, Revelation 14:12

godliness: 2 Peter 1:3, 2 Peter 3:11, Genesis 5:24, Isaiah 57:1, 1 Timothy 2:2, 1 Timothy 2:10, 1 Timothy 3:16, 1 Timothy 4:7, 1 Timothy 4:8, 1 Timothy 6:3, 1 Timothy 6:6, 1 Timothy 6:11, 2 Timothy 3:5, Titus 1:1

Reciprocal: Romans 12:12 - patient Philippians 1:9 - in knowledge 1 Peter 4:8 - fervent Revelation 2:3 - hast patience

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters."
Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind." And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13
And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
Genesis 1:20
And God said, "Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky."
Genesis 1:22
Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And to knowledge, temperance,.... Avoiding all excess in eating and drinking, and all impure and unclean lusts; for it signifies nothing what a man knows, or professes to know, if his life is a scene of intemperance and debauchery: this seems to be levelled against the followers or Simon Magus, who ascertained salvation to knowledge, though the life was ever so impure, Moreover, this may include abstinence, not only from hurtful lusts, but from the use of things indifferent, when the peace and comfort of a weak brother are endangered; for then to knowledge must be added love, otherwise that knowledge will not be right, at least not rightly used; see 1 Corinthians 8:1,

and to temperance, patience; which is necessary to the running of the Christian race, which is attended with many difficulties and exercises; and under affliction from the hand of God, that there be no murmuring nor repining; and under reproaches and persecutions from men, that they faint not, and are not discouraged by them; and in the expectation of the heavenly glory: this is proper to be superadded to the former, because there may be intemperance in passion, as well as in the use of the creatures; a man may be inebriated with wrath and anger, and overcome with impatience, as well as with wine and strong drink:

and to patience, godliness; either internal, which is distinguished from bodily exercise, or outward worship, and lies in the inward and powerful exercise of grace, as faith, hope, love, fear, &c. and the Syriac version here renders it, "the fear of God": or rather external, and intends the whole worship of God, as prayer, praise, hearing of the word, and attendance on all ordinances.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And to knowledge temperance - On the meaning of the word “temperance,” see the Acts 24:25 note, and 1 Corinthians 9:25 note. The word here refers to the mastery over all our evil inclinations and appetites. We are to allow none of them to obtain control over us. See the notes at 1 Corinthians 6:12. This would include, of course, abstinence from intoxicating drinks; but it would also embrace all evil passions and propensities. Everything is to be confined within proper limits, and to no propensity of our nature are we to give indulgence beyond the limits which the law of God allows.

And to temperance patience - Notes, James 1:4.

And to patience godliness - True piety. Notes, 2 Peter 1:3. Compare 1 Timothy 2:2; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 Timothy 4:7-8; 1 Timothy 6:3, 1 Timothy 6:5-6, 1 Timothy 6:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 6. Temperance — A proper and limited use of all earthly enjoyments, keeping every sense under proper restraints, and never permitting the animal part to subjugate the rational.

Patience — Bearing all trials and difficulties with an even mind, enduring in all, and persevering through all.

Godliness — Piety towards God; a deep, reverential, religious fear; not only worshipping God with every becoming outward act, but adoring, loving, and magnifying him in the heart: a disposition indispensably necessary to salvation, but exceedingly rare among professors.


 
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