2 Peter 1:6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;

◄ 2 Peter 1:6 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, 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,

King James Bible
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,

International Standard Version
your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness,

American Standard Version
and in your knowledge self-control; and in your'self-control patience; and in your patience godliness;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness;

Darby Bible Translation
in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,

Young's Literal Translation
and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:1-11 Faith unites the weak believer to Christ, as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every sincere believer is by his faith justified in the sight of God. Faith worketh godliness, and produces effects which no other grace in the soul can do. In Christ all fulness dwells, and pardon, peace, grace, and knowledge, and new principles, are thus given through the Holy Spirit. The promises to those who are partakers of a Divine nature, will cause us to inquire whether we are really renewed in the spirit of our minds; let us turn all these promises into prayers for the transforming and purifying grace of the Holy Spirit. The believer must add knowledge to his virtue, increasing acquaintance with the whole truth and will of God. We must add temperance to knowledge; moderation about worldly things; and add to temperance, patience, or cheerful submission to the will of God. Tribulation worketh patience, whereby we bear all calamities and crosses with silence and submission. To patience we must add godliness: this includes the holy affections and dispositions found in the true worshipper of God; with tender affection to all fellow Christians, who are children of the same Father, servants of the same Master, members of the same family, travellers to the same country, heirs of the same inheritance. Wherefore let Christians labour to attain assurance of their calling, and of their election, by believing and well-doing; and thus carefully to endeavour, is a firm argument of the grace and mercy of God, upholding them so that they shall not utterly fall. Those who are diligent in the work of religion, shall have a triumphant entrance into that everlasting kingdom where Christ reigns, and they shall reign with him for ever and ever; and it is in the practice of every good work that we are to expect entrance to heaven.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. Greek, "And in your knowledge self-control." In the exercise of Christian knowledge or discernment of God's will, let there be the practical fruit of self-control as to one's lusts and passions. Incontinence weakens the mind; continence, or self-control, moves weakness and imparts strength And in your self-control patient endurance" amidst sufferings, so much dwelt on in the First Epistle, second, third, and fourth chapters. "And in your patient endurance godliness"; it is not to be mere stoical endurance, but united to [and flowing from] God-trusting [Alford].