2 Peter 1:5
This is why you must put every effort into this: let your faith provide goodness, and goodness knowledge,
Treated in 10 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Thoughts for the Quiet Hour ·
July cites 2 Pet. i. 5
…will.—J. Hudson Taylor. July 11 Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue. 2 Pet. i. 5. You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do…
- Rise Up, Men of God ·
The Inner Man cites 2 Peter 1:5–7
…godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love" (2 Peter 1:5–7). Notice the verb: "make every effort." Character does not happen by accident. It is…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 5 — The Arguments Usually Alleged in Support of Free Will Refuted cites 2 Pet. 1:5
…be arrogated to themselves. Accordingly, when Peter exhorts us to “add to faith virtue,” (2 Pet. 1:5), he does not concede to us the possession of a second place, as if we could do anything…
- The Key Teachings of Hannah Whitall Smith ·
God’s Side and Man’s Side cites 2 PETER 1:5
…And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 2 PETER 1:5 Paul does not tell the Philippians to lie still; he tells them to work, because God is…
- Morning by Morning ·
July cites 2 Peter 1:5
…July 26 “Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge, etc.” (2 Peter 1:5, 6) If thou wouldest enjoy the eminent grace of the full assurance of faith, under the…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Assurance cites 2 Pet 1:5
…‘Make your election sure.’ How? ‘Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge.’ 2 Pet 1:5. Keep grace upon the wing; it is lively faith that flourishes into assurance. No man will…
- Old Paths ·
Alive or Dead? cites 2 Peter i. 5
…temperance, and to temperance brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity.” (2 Peter i. 5, 6, 7.) This is the way to be a useful Christian. Men will believe you are in earnest…
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit ·
The Holy Spirit Bringing Forth in the Believer Christ- Like Graces of Character cites 2 Peter 1:5-7
…the building, and even then, it is not so much building as fruit-bearing. (See, however, 2 Peter 1:5-7) We also hear a great deal about “cultivating graces of character,” but we must always…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XI. It is no sign that affections are right, or that they are wrong, that they make persons that have them exceeding confident that what they experience is divine, and that they are in a good estate cites 2 Pet. 1:5-8
…all diligence to make their calling and election sure, and are told how they may do it, 2 Pet. 1:5-8. And it is spoken of as a thing very unbecoming Christians, and an argument of something…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
Part III cites 2 Pet. 1:5-11
…forgiveness of our sins past, or our heavenly inheritance that is future, and far off, 2 Pet. 1:5-11.3636 The way to know your godliness is to renew the visible exercises of grace.—The more…