Parallel Verses

Common New Testament

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

New American Standard Bible

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

King James Version

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Holman Bible

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

International Standard Version

For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

A Conservative Version

For these things existing in you and abounding, it leads to not being idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

American Standard Version

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amplified

For as these qualities are yours and are increasing [in you as you grow toward spiritual maturity], they will keep you from being useless and unproductive in regard to the true knowledge and greater understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.

An Understandable Version

For if you people have a lot of these [qualities] they will keep you from being unproductive and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Anderson New Testament

For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Bible in Basic English

For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Daniel Mace New Testament

for if you are possess'd of these virtues and improve therein, they will prevent the knowledge you have of our Lord Jesus Christ from being useless to others, and unprofitable to yourselves.

Darby Translation

for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

for these things being in you, and abounding, make you to be neither slothful, nor unfruitful, in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Godbey New Testament

For these things, being in you and overflowing, render you neither barren nor unfruitful in the perfect knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Goodspeed New Testament

For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.

John Wesley New Testament

For these being in you and abounding, make you neither slothful nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Julia Smith Translation

For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

King James 2000

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For [if] these [things] are yours and are increasing, this does not make [you] useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Modern King James verseion

For if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if these things be among you, and are plenteous, they will make you that ye neither shall be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of the our Lord Jesus Christ.

Moffatt New Testament

For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Montgomery New Testament

For if these virtues are yours in abounding measure, they render you not idle nor unfruitful, until you come into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

NET Bible

For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.

New Heart English Bible

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Noyes New Testament

For if these things are in you and abound, they make you neither inactive nor unfruitful in gaining the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sawyer New Testament

For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

The Emphasized Bible

These things, unto you, belonging and abounding, neither idle nor unfruitful, constitute you, regarding the personal knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For if these things are in your possession, and abounding, they will render you neither inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Twentieth Century New Testament

For, when these virtues are yours, in increasing measure, they prevent your being indifferent to, or destitute of, a fuller knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Webster

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Weymouth New Testament

If these things exist in you, and continually increase, they prevent your being either idle or unfruitful in advancing towards a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Williams New Testament

For if you have these qualities and they continue to increase in you, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

World English Bible

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Worrell New Testament

For these things, belonging to you and abounding, make you neither idle nor unfruitful regarding the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Worsley New Testament

For if these be in you and abound, they will not suffer you to be idle, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Youngs Literal Translation

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

if
ὑπάρχω 
Huparcho 
be, have, live, after, not tr
Usage: 41

ταῦτα 
Tauta 
Usage: 188

be
ὑπάρχω 
Huparcho 
be, have, live, after, not tr
Usage: 41

in you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

πλεονάζω 
Pleonazo 
Usage: 9

καθίστημι 
Kathistemi 
Usage: 15

οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

be barren
ἀργός 
Argos 
Usage: 4

nor
οὐδέ 
Oude 
neither, nor, not, no not, not so much as, then not, not tr,
Usage: 83

ἄκαρπος 
Akarpos 
Usage: 5

in
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

the knowledge
ἐπίγνωσις 
Epignosis 
Usage: 20

of
κύριος 
Kurios 
Usage: 643

our
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

κύριος 
Kurios 
Usage: 643

Ἰησοῦς 
Iesous 
Usage: 969

Devotionals

Devotionals about 2 Peter 1:8

Images 2 Peter 1:8

Prayers for 2 Peter 1:8

Context Readings

Growth In The Faith

7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.



Cross References

John 15:2

Every branch in me that bears no fruit he takes away; and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Titus 3:14

Our people must also learn to devote themselves to good deeds, so that they may help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.

2 Peter 1:2

grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 13:22

Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 20:3

And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

Matthew 20:6

And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day?'

Matthew 25:26

But his master answered him, 'You wicked and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed?

John 5:42

But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.

John 15:6-8

If anyone does not abide in me, he is like a branch that is cast away and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.

Romans 12:11

Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:13-17

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

2 Corinthians 8:2

for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

2 Corinthians 8:7

But as you excel in everythingin faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in your love for ussee that you excel in this work of grace also.

2 Corinthians 9:14

while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in youunless, indeed, you fail the test?

Philippians 1:9

And this is my prayer, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

Philippians 2:5

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

Colossians 2:7

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides, they learn to be idle, going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

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