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THE MESSAGE
2 Peter 1:5
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For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,
And besides this, giuing all diligence, adde to your faith, vertue; and to vertue knowledge;
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
Because you have these blessings, do your best to add these things to your lives: to your faith, add goodness; and to your goodness, add knowledge;
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
Do your best to improve your faith. You can do this by adding goodness, understanding,
For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,
But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
Because you have these blessings, do all you can to add to your life these things: to your faith add goodness; to your goodness add knowledge;
Therefore giue euen all diligence thereunto: ioyne moreouer vertue with your faith: and with vertue, knowledge:
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;
and for this same reason, and by applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge,
But also in this very thing, having brought in all diligence, having fully supplied in your faith virtue, and with virtue knowledge,
For this very reason, applying your diligence [to the divine promises], make every effort in [exercising] your faith to develop moral excellence, and in moral excellence, knowledge (insight, understanding),
Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;
So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
For this very reason, you must make every effort to supplement your faith with moral character, your moral character with knowledge,1 Peter 3:7; 2 Peter 3:18;">[xr]
5 So, with this, bringing in all diligence [fn] add to your faith virtue; but to virtue knowledge,
And, while ye apply all diligence in the matter, add to your faith moral excellence; and to moral excellence, knowledge;
And herevnto geue all diligence: in your fayth minister vertue, in vertue knowledge,
Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
For this very reason giving all diligence, add to your faith courage,
But for this very reason--adding, on your part, all earnestness-- along with your faith, manifest also a noble character: along with a noble character, knowledge;
And bringe ye in alle bisynesse, and mynystre ye in youre feith vertu, and `in vertu kunnyng;
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;
And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith excellence, to excellence, knowledge;
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God's promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge,
Do your best to add holy living to your faith. Then add to this a better understanding.
For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge,
And, for this very reason also - adding, on your part, all diligence, supply, in your faith, excellence, and, in your excellence, knowledge,
And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:
For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
And hervnto geve all diligence: in youre fayth minister vertve and in vertue knowledge
And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
Geue ye all youre diligence therfore here vnto, and in youre faith mynister vertue: in vertue, knowlege:
Do you on your part employ all your care in adding to your faith, fortitude: to fortitude, knowledge:
Because of this, don't be lazy in responding to God's promises. Throw in a heaping of goodness on top of your faith. To your goodness, add a bunch of wisdom.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
beside: Luke 16:26, Luke 24:21
giving: 2 Peter 1:10, 2 Peter 3:14, 2 Peter 3:18, Psalms 119:4, Proverbs 4:23, Isaiah 55:2, Zechariah 6:15, John 6:27, Philippians 2:12, Hebrews 6:11, Hebrews 11:6, Hebrews 12:15
virtue: 2 Peter 1:3, Philippians 4:8
knowledge: 2 Peter 1:2, 2 Peter 3:18, 1 Corinthians 14:20, Ephesians 1:17, Ephesians 1:18, Ephesians 5:17, Philippians 1:9, Colossians 1:9, 1 Peter 3:7
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 6:17 - General Joshua 7:3 - about two Joshua 22:5 - take Psalms 112:6 - Surely Proverbs 10:4 - becometh Proverbs 10:17 - the way Proverbs 13:4 - but Proverbs 20:4 - therefore Ecclesiastes 10:18 - General Song of Solomon 4:2 - teeth Jeremiah 17:24 - if Ezekiel 18:22 - in his Micah 6:8 - to do Matthew 13:23 - some an Matthew 20:1 - labourers Matthew 28:20 - them Luke 6:49 - that heareth John 3:21 - that his Acts 26:20 - and do Romans 15:14 - full 1 Corinthians 14:6 - knowledge 2 Corinthians 3:18 - are 2 Corinthians 8:7 - see Galatians 5:22 - love Ephesians 1:4 - that Philippians 3:12 - already perfect Colossians 3:12 - mercies 1 Thessalonians 4:1 - so ye 2 Thessalonians 1:3 - your 1 Timothy 4:7 - exercise 1 Timothy 4:12 - in word 1 Timothy 6:11 - righteousness 2 Timothy 3:10 - faith Titus 2:12 - live James 2:14 - though James 2:17 - so 2 Peter 1:9 - lacketh
Cross-References
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."
class="poetry"> O my soul, bless God ! God , my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed, Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent. You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind-wings. You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors. You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever. You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters; Then you roared and the water ran away— your thunder crash put it to flight. Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them. You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded. You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills. All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst. Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard. You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water. You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land, wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty. God 's trees are well-watered— the Lebanon cedars he planted. Birds build their nests in those trees; look—the stork at home in the treetop. Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks. The moon keeps track of the seasons, the sun is in charge of each day. When it's dark and night takes over, all the forest creatures come out. The young lions roar for their prey, clamoring to God for their supper. When the sun comes up, they vanish, lazily stretched out in their dens. Meanwhile, men and women go out to work, busy at their jobs until evening. What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom. The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt. Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I'm so pleased to be singing to God . But clear the ground of sinners— no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God !
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And besides this, giving all diligence,.... "Or upon this", as the Syriac and Arabic versions read, bestow all your labour, diligence, and care; namely, on what follows, and that from the consideration of what goes before; for nothing can more strongly animate, and engage to the diligent exercise of grace and discharge of duty, than a consideration of the high favours, and free grace gifts of God, and the exceeding great and precious promises of his Gospel:
add to your faith virtue; or "with your faith", so the Arabic version renders it, and the like, in the following clauses. They had faith, even like precious faith with the apostles, not of themselves, but by the gift of God, and which is the first and principal grace; it leads the van, or rather the "chorus", as the word rendered "add" signifies; and though it is in itself imperfect, has many things lacking in it, yet it cannot be added to, or increased by men; ministers may be a means of perfecting what is lacking in it, and of the furtherance and joy of it, but it is the Lord only that can increase it, or add unto it in that sense, and which is not the meaning here: but the sense is, that as it is the basis and foundation of all good works, it should not stand alone, there ought to be virtue, or good works along with it, by which it may be perfected, not essentially, but evidentially, or might appear to be true and genuine; for by virtue may be either meant some particular virtue, as justice towards men, to which both the grace and doctrine of faith direct; and indeed pretensions to faith in Christ, where there is not common justice done to men, are of little account; or, as others think, beneficence to men; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "proceed to bounty by your faith"; and faith does work by love and kindness to fellow creatures and Christians; but this seems rather designed by brotherly kindness and charity, in 2 Peter 1:7 or boldness, courage, constancy, and fortitude, which ought to go along with faith. Where there is true faith in Christ, there should be a holy boldness to profess it, and constancy in it, and courage to fight the good fight of faith, and firmness of mind to stand fast in it, notwithstanding all difficulties and discouragements; or virtue in general here meant, not mere moral, but Christian virtues, which are the fruits of the Spirit of God, and of his grace; and differ from the other, in that they spring from the grace of God, are done in faith, by the assistance of the Spirit of Christ, and by strength received from him, and in love to him, and with a view to the glory of God; whereas moral virtues, as exercised by a mere moral man, spring from nature, and are performed by the mere strength of it, and are destitute of faith, and so but "splendida peccata", splendid sins, and proceed from self-love, from sinister ends, and with selfish views:
and to virtue, knowledge; not of Christ, mentioned 2 Peter 1:8 and which is included in faith, for there can be no true faith in Christ, were there not knowledge of him; but of the will of God, which it is necessary men should be acquainted with, in order to perform it; or else though they may seem zealous of good works, their zeal will not be according to knowledge; they ought to know what are virtues or good works in God's account, and what are the nature and use of them, lest they should mistake and misapply them; or of the Scriptures of truth, and of the mysteries of the Gospel, which should be diligently searched, for the increase and improvement of knowledge in divine things, and which has a considerable influence on a just, sober, and godly living; or by knowledge may be meant prudence and wisdom, in ordering the external conversation aright towards those that are without, and in showing good works out of it, to others, by way of example, and for the evidence of the truth of things, with meekness of wisdom.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And beside this - Καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο Kai auto touto. Something here is necessary to be understood in order to complete the sense. The reference is to 2 Peter 1:3; and the connection is, since 2 Peter 1:3 God has given us these exalted privileges and hopes, “in respect to this,” (κατὰ kata or διὰ dia being understood,) or as a “consequence” fairly flowing from this, we ought to give all diligence that we may make good use of these advantages, and secure as high attainments as we possibly can. We should add one virtue to another, that we may reach the highest possible elevation in holiness.
Giving all diligence - Greek, “Bringing in all zeal or effort.” The meaning is, that we ought to make this a distinct and definite object, and to apply ourselves to it as a thing to be accomplished.
Add to your faith virtue - It is not meant in this verse and the following that we are to endeavor particularly to add these things one to another “in the order” in which they are specified, or that we are to seek first to have faith, and then to add to that virtue, and then to add knowledge to virtue rather than to faith, etc. The order in which this is to be done, the relation which one of these things may have to another, is not the point aimed at; nor are we to suppose that any other order of the words would not have answered the purpose of the apostle as well, or that anyone of the virtues specified would not sustain as direct a relation to any other, as the one which he has specified. The design of the apostle is to say, in an emphatic manner, that we are to strive to possess and exhibit all these virtues; in other words, we are not to content ourselves with a single grace, but are to cultivate all the virtues, and to endeavor to make our piety complete in all the relations which we sustain. The essential idea in the passage before us seems to be, that in our religion we are not to be satisfied with one virtue, or one class of virtues, but that there is to be.
(1)A diligent cultivation of our virtues, since the graces of religion are as susceptible of cultivation as any other virtues;
(2)That there is to be progress made from one virtue to another, seeking to reach the highest possible point in our religion; and,
(3)That there is to be an accumulation of virtues and graces - or we are not to be satisfied with one class, or with the attainments which we can make in one class.
We are to endeavor to add on one after another until we have become possessed of all. Faith, perhaps, is mentioned first, because that is the foundation of all Christian virtues; and the other virtues are required to be added to that, because, from the place which faith occupies in the plan of justification, many might be in danger of supposing that if they had that they had all that was necessary. Compare James 2:14, following In the Greek word rendered “add,” ἐπιχορηγήσατε epichorēgēsate there is an allusion to a “chorus-leader” among the Greeks, and the sense is well expressed by Doddridge: “Be careful to accompany that belief with all the lovely train of attendant graces.” Or, in other words, “let faith lead on as at the head of the choir or the graces, and let all the others follow in their order.” The word here rendered “virtue” is the same which is used in 2 Peter 1:3; and there ks included in it, probably, the same general idea which was noticed there. All the things which the apostle specifies, unless “knowledge” be an exception, are “virtues” in the sense in which that word is commonly used; and it can hardly be supposed that the apostle here meant to use a general term which would include all of the others. The probability is, therefore, that by the word here he has reference to the common meaning of the Greek word, as referring to manliness, courage, vigor, energy; and the sense is, that he wished them to evince whatever firmness or courage might be necessary in maintaining the principles of their religion, and in enduring the trials to which their faith might be subjected. True “virtue” is not a tame and passive thing. It requires great energy and boldness, for its very essence is firmness, manliness, and independence.
And to virtue knowledge - The knowledge of God and of the way of salvation through the Redeemer, 2 Peter 1:3. Compare 2 Peter 3:8. It is the duty of every Christian to make the highest possible attainments in “knowledge.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 5. And beside this — Notwithstanding what God hath done for you, in order that ye may not receive the grace of God in vain;
Giving all diligence — Furnishing all earnestness and activity: the original is very emphatic.
Add to your faith — επιχορηγησατε. Lead up hand in hand; alluding, as most think, to the chorus in the Grecian dance, who danced with joined hands. 2 Corinthians 9:10.
Your faith - That faith in Jesus by which ye have been led to embrace the whole Gospel, and by which ye have the evidence of things unseen.
Virtue — αρετην. Courage or fortitude, to enable you to profess the faith before men, in these times of persecution.
Knowledge — True wisdom, by which your faith will be increased, and your courage directed, and preserved from degenerating into rashness.
