2 Peter 1:9

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Summary

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Lacketh

Blind

That he

1 John 1:7

General references

Luke 11:35

Bible References

Lacketh

Then Jesus looking upon him, loved him, and said to him, In one thing thou art defective: go, sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor; and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up thy cross, and follow me.

Then Jesus hearing this, said to him, Yet one thing thou lackest: sell all whatsoever thou hast, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith exerting its energy by love.

What is the advantage, my brethren, if a man profess to have faith, but hath not works; can faith save him?

Blind

And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, Are we blind also?

And if now our gospel be hid, it is hid from those who are lost:

He who saith, that he is in the light, yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

because thou sayest, I am rich, and wallow in wealth, and have no want unsupplied; yet thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

That he

whereby superlatively great and precious promises are freely given to us: that by these ye might become partakers of a divine nature, having fled far away from the corruption that is in the world through inordinate concupiscence.??5 And for this very purpose employing the greatest diligence, lead up in the train of your faith courage; and with courage intelligence;

Uttering pompous discourses of inanity, ensnaring by the lusts of the flesh, by lascivious impurities, those who had truly escaped from such as live in a course of delusion.

THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound?

that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit, offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the living God?

The antitype to which baptism now saveth us (not the mere removal of filth from the flesh, but the engagement of a good conscience to God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

but if we walk in the light, as he is himself in the light, we have communion with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

General references

Let it be thy aim then, that the light which is in thee do not become darkness.