2 Peter 1:5 - The Message So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence), American Standard Version (1901) Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge; Common English Bible This is why you must make every effort to add moral excellence to your faith; and to moral excellence, knowledge; Catholic Public Domain Version But as for you, taking up every concern, minister virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge; |