"And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;" — 2 Peter 1:6

2 Peter 1:6 · KJV

“And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;”

— 2 Peter 1:6

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

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

2 Peter 1 — Context

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

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

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

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make {you that ye shall} neither {be} barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. {barren: Gr. idle}

Cross References

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: {to: or, by}

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,

1 Corinthians 9:25

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they {do it} to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

Galatians 5:23

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

2 Corinthians 6:4

But in all {things} approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {approving: Gr. commending}