for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;2 Peter 1:9 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleBut he that lacketh these things - He, whether Jew or Gentile, who professes to have Faith in God, and has not added to that Faith fortitude, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and universal love; is blind - his understanding is darkened, and cannot see afar off, μυωπαζων, shutting his eyes against the light, winking, not able to look truth in the face, nor to behold that God whom he once knew was reconciled to him: and thus it appears he is wilfully blind, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins - has at last, through his nonimprovement of the grace which he received from God, his faith ceasing to work by love, lost the evidence of things not seen; for, having grieved the Holy Spirit by not showing forth the virtues of him who called him into his marvellous light, he has lost the testimony of his sonship; and then, darkness and hardness having taken place of light and filial confidence, he first calls all his former experience into doubt, and questions whether he has not put enthusiasm in the place of religion. By these means his darkness and hardness increase, his memory becomes indistinct and confused, till at length he forgets the work of God on his soul, next denies it, and at last asserts that the knowledge of salvation, by the remission of sins, is impossible, and that no man can be saved from sin in this life. Indeed, some go so far as to deny the Lord that bought them; to renounce Jesus Christ as having made atonement for them; and finish their career of apostasy by utterly denying his Godhead. Many cases of this kind have I known; and they are all the consequence of believers not continuing to be workers together with God, after they had experienced his pardoning love.
Reader, see that the light that is in thee become not darkness; for if it do, how great a darkness!
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lacketh.
2 Peter 1:5-7 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge...
Mark 10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said to him, One thing you lack: go your way, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor...
Luke 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet lack you one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor...
Galatians 5:6,13 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love...
James 2:14-26 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him...
blind.
John 9:40,41 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said to him, Are we blind also...
2 Corinthians 4:3,4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost...
1 John 2:9-11 He that said he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now...
Revelation 3:17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable...
that he.
2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature...
2 Peter 2:18-20 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness...
Romans 6:1-4,11 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound...
Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God...
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh...
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another...
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