2 Peter 1:5
Good News Translation
For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;

New Revised Standard Version
For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge,

Contemporary English Version
Do your best to improve your faith by adding goodness, understanding,

New American Bible
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:

beside.

Luke 16:26 And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from thence come hither.

Luke 24:21 But we hoped that it was he that should have redeemed Israel. And now besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done.

giving.

2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

2 Peter 3:14,18 Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace. . . .

Psalm 119:4 Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.

Proverbs 4:23 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.

Zechariah 6:15 And they that are far off, shall come and shall build in the temple of the Lord: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts sent me to you. But this shall come to pass, if hearing you will hear the voice of the Lord your God.

John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

Hebrews 6:11 And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him.

Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled:

virtue.

2 Peter 1:3 As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue.

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

knowledge.

2 Peter 1:2 Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity, Amen.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

Ephesians 1:17,18 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him: . . .

Ephesians 5:17 Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will of God.

Philippians 1:9 And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding:

Colossians 1:9 Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

1 Peter 3:7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

Context
Partakers of the Divine Nature
4By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world. 5And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge: 6And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in patience, godliness:…
Cross References
Colossians 2:3
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

2 Peter 1:2
Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Peter 1:3
As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue.

2 Peter 1:11
For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:4
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