2 Peter 1:8

Overview - 2 Peter 1
Confirming them in hope of the increase of God's graces,
he exhorts them, by faith, and good works, to make their calling sure;
12 whereof he is careful to remind them, knowing that his death is at hand;
16 and warns them to be constant in the faith of Christ, who is the true Son of God, by the eyewitness of the apostles beholding his majesty, and by the testimony of the Father, and the prophets.
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2 Peter 1:8  (King James Version)
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.
 


in you
John 5:42 ; 2 Corinthians 9:14 ; 13:5 Philippians 2:5 ; Colossians 3:16 ; Philemon 1:6

and abound
1 Corinthians 15:58 ; 2 Corinthians 8:2 2 Corinthians 8:7 ; Philippians 1:9 ; Colossians 2:7 ; 3:16 1 Thessalonians 3:12 ; 4:1 2 Thessalonians 1:3

they
John 15:7 John 15:8 ; 2 Corinthians 5:13-17

barren
or, idle.
Proverbs 19:15 ; Matthew 20:3 Matthew 20:6 ; 25:26 Romans 12:11 ; 1 Timothy 5:13 ; Hebrews 6:12

unfruitful
Matthew 13:22 ; John 15:2 John 15:6 ; Titus 3:14

in
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