for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,2 Peter 1:8 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleFor if these things be in you and abound - If ye possess all there graces, and they increase and abound in your souls, they will make - show, you to be neither αργους, idle, nor ακαρπους, unfruitful, in the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ. The common translation is here very unhappy: barren and unfruitful certainly convey the same ideas; but idle or inactive, which is the proper sense of αργους, takes away this tautology, and restores the sense. The graces already mentioned by the apostle are in themselves active principles; he who was possessed of them, and had them abounding in him, could not be inactive; and he who is not inactive in the way of life must be fruitful. I may add, that he who is thus active, and consequently fruitful, will ever be ready at all hazard to acknowledge his Lord and Savior, by whom he has been brought into this state of salvation.
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in you.
John 5:42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
2 Corinthians 9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you...
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs...
Philemon 1:6 That the communication of your faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
and abound.
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord...
2 Corinthians 8:2,7 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality...
Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs...
1 Thessalonians 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
1 Thessalonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus...
2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is meet, because that your faith grows exceedingly...
they.
John 15:7,8 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you...
2 Corinthians 5:13-17 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause...
barren. or, idle.
Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Matthew 20:3,6 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace...
Matthew 25:26 His lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not...
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
1 Timothy 5:13 And with they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies...
Hebrews 6:12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
unfruitful.
Matthew 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches...
John 15:2,6 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it...
Titus 3:14 And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
in. See on ver.
2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2 Peter 1:8 Parallel Commentaries
Abound Abounding Acknowledging Advancing Barren Christ Continually Either Exist Existing Fertile Fruit Full Good Idle Increase Increasing Ineffective Jesus Measure Possess Prevent Qualities Regard Render Towards True. Unfruitful UselessAbound Abounding Acknowledging Advancing Barren Christ Continually Either Exist Existing Fertile Fruit Full Good Idle Increase Increasing Ineffective Jesus Measure Possess Prevent Qualities Regard Render Towards True. Unfruitful UselessTHE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®.2 Peter 1:8 Mobile Bible
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