2 Peter 1:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

2 Peter 1:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:21
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Romans 15:14-15
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. …
Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-15)

I. The importance and advantage of progress and perseverance in grace and holiness made the apostle to be very diligent in doing the work of a minister of Christ, that he might thereby excite and assist them to be diligent in the duty of Christians. If ministers be negligent in their work, it can hardly be expected that the people will be diligent in theirs; therefore Peter will not be negligent (…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Wherefore--as these graces are so necessary to your abundant entrance into Christ’s kingdom (2Pe 1:10, 11). I will not be negligent--The oldest manuscripts read, “I will be about always to put you in remembrance” (an accumulated future: I will regard you as always needing to be reminded): compare “I will endeavor,” 2Pe 1:15. “I will be sure always to remind you” [Alford]. “Always”; implying th…