2 Peter 1:6

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2 Peter 1:6

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Summary

2 Peter 1:6

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

Temperance

Titus 2:2

Patience

Godliness

General references

Deuteronomy 6:17

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Luke 1:75

Bible References

Temperance

And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Patience

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.

But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

By your patient endurance gain your souls.

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;

remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of the Christ.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive the early and the latter rain.

I John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and patience, in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus.

I know thy works and thy labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars;

If any one leads into captivity, he goes into captivity. If any one shall kill with the sword, he must with the sword be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Here is the endurance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Godliness

As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue,

All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from before the evil.

for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been received up in glory.

But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;

If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to piety,

having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.

Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect, and knowledge of the truth which is according to piety;

General references

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

By much sloth fulness the framework falleth in; and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth.

in piety and righteousness before him all our days.