2 Peter 1:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

James 2:14

Blind

That he

1 John 1:7

General references

Deuteronomy 6:17

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Luke 11:35

Bible References

Lacketh

And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing you lack: go your way, sell whatsoever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet you lack one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute unto the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love.

What does it profit, my brethren, though a man says he has faith, and has not works? can faith save him?

Blind

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

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.

Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

That he

By which are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

The like figure unto which even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

General references

You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

Take heed therefore that the light which is in you be not darkness.