Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor
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
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.
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.
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,
Themes
Charity » Those that are charitable
Charity » Those that are not charitable
Kindness » Those that are kind
Kindness » Those that are not kind
Kingdom of God » Who can enter into the kingdom of God
Knowledge » Those that have knowledge
Knowledge » Those that lack knowledge
Patience » Those that are patient
Patience » Those that are not patient
Stumbling/slipping » Who shall not stumble
Temperance » Those that are temperate
Temperance » Those that are not temperate
Interlinear
Tauta
References
Smith
Word Count of 38 Translations in 2 Peter 1:8
Images 2 Peter 1:8
Prayers for 2 Peter 1:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Growth In The Faith
7
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor
Cross References
John 15:2
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Titus 3:14
And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.
2 Peter 1:2
May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Matthew 13:22
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Matthew 20:3
And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
Matthew 20:6
And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'
Matthew 25:26
But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?
John 5:42
But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.
John 15:6-8
If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Romans 12:11
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit,serve the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
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 a wealth of generosity on their part.
2 Corinthians 8:7
But as you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you--see that you excel in this act of grace also.
2 Corinthians 9:14
while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
Philippians 1:9
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
Philippians 2:5
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Colossians 2:7
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
1 Timothy 5:13
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
Hebrews 6:12
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.