10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
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Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: …
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. …
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)In these words the apostle comes to the chief thing intended in this epistle—to excite and engage them to advance in grace and holiness, they having already obtained precious faith, and been made partakers of the divine nature. This is a very good beginning, but it is not to be rested in, as if we were already perfect. The apostle had prayed that grace and peace might be multiplied to them, and no…
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