2 Peter 1:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

2 Peter 1:6 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Romans 5:3-4
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; …
Luke 21:19
In your patience possess ye your souls.
2 Peter 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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Commentary

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…

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

(vv. 6)

6. Greek, “And in your knowledge self-control.” In the exercise of Christian knowledge or discernment of God’s will, let there be the practical fruit of self-control as to one’s lusts and passions. Incontinence weakens the mind; continence, or self-control, moves weakness and imparts strength And in your self-control patient endurance” amidst sufferings, so much dwelt on in the First Epistle, seco…