Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,
New American Standard Bible
Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His
King James Version
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Holman Bible
Therefore, brothers, make every effort to confirm your calling and election,
International Standard Version
So then, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election certain, for if you keep on doing this you will never fail.
A Conservative Version
Therefore, brothers, instead be diligent to make your calling and selection sure, for doing these things, ye would, no, not ever stumble.
American Standard Version
Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:
Amplified
Therefore, believers, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you [be sure that your behavior reflects and confirms your relationship with God]; for by
An Understandable Version
So, brothers, be diligent to make sure of your calling and election [i.e., of your status as being selected by God], for when you do, you will never stumble [and fall away from God].
Anderson New Testament
Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
Bible in Basic English
For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
Common New Testament
Therefore, brethren, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall;
Daniel Mace New Testament
Wherefore be the more diligent, my brethren, to secure your vocation and election by your virtuous actions, for by so doing, you will never relapse:
Darby Translation
Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Wherefore, the rather, brethren, earnestly endeavor to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, you shall never fall;
Godbey New Testament
Therefore, brethren, be the more diligent to make your calling and election sure: for doing these things you can never fall.
Goodspeed New Testament
Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,
John Wesley New Testament
Wherefore the rather, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election firm; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:
King James 2000
Therefore rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence for to make your calling and election sure. For if ye do such things, ye shall never err.
Moffatt New Testament
So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;
Montgomery New Testament
So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.
NET Bible
Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to be sure of your calling and election. For by doing this you will never stumble into sin.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
Noyes New Testament
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye will never fall.
Sawyer New Testament
Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, all the more, brethren, give diligence to be making, firm, your calling and election; for, these things, doing, in nowise shall ye stumble at any time,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make sure your calling and election: for by doing these things, ye shall never at any time stumble:
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God's Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.
Webster
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Weymouth New Testament
For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.
Williams New Testament
Therefore, brothers, be all the more in earnest to make certain to yourselves God's call and choice of you. For if you cultivate these qualities, you will never slip,
World English Bible
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
Worrell New Testament
Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for, if ye do these things, ye shall in nowise ever stumble;
Worsley New Testament
Wherefore, my brethren, be the more diligent thus to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things ye shall never fall.
Themes
Assurance » Give diligence to attain to
Assurance » Saints privileged to have » Saints give diligence to attain
Business life » Business virtues » Diligence
Call » To special religious duty » All who are called of God
Charity » Those that are charitable
Diligence » Required by God in » Making our call, &c, sure
Diligence » Making our calling sure
Election » Should be evidenced by diligence
Kindness » Those that are kind
Kingdom of God » Who can enter into the kingdom of God
Knowledge » Those that have knowledge
Patience » Those that are patient
Salvation » Conditions of » Spiritual diligence
Sinners » Conditions of » Spiritual diligence
Stumbling/slipping » Who shall not stumble
Temperance » Those that are temperate
Topics
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References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 2 Peter 1:10
Images 2 Peter 1:10
Prayers for 2 Peter 1:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Growth In The Faith
9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins; 10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble, 11 for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Cross References
2 Peter 3:17
Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,
Micah 7:8
Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.
Matthew 7:24-25
'Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
Romans 8:28-31
And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
2 Timothy 2:19
sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, 'The Lord hath known those who are His,' and 'Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'
Hebrews 6:11
and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,
1 Peter 1:5
who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
1 John 3:19-21
and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
Psalm 15:5
His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!
Psalm 37:24
When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.
Psalm 62:2
Only -- He is my rock, and my salvation, My tower, I am not much moved.
Psalm 62:6
Only -- He is my rock and my salvation, My tower, I am not moved.
Psalm 112:6
For -- to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous.
Psalm 121:3
He suffereth not thy foot to be moved, Thy preserver slumbereth not.
Isaiah 56:2
O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it, And keeping his hand from doing any evil.
Luke 6:47-49
Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;
Acts 20:24-25
but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.
1 Thessalonians 1:3-4
unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,
Hebrews 6:19
which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,
1 Peter 1:2
according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
2 Peter 1:5
And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
Revelation 3:10-11
'Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.
Revelation 22:14
'Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;