2 Peter 1:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

For if these things are with you, and if they abound, they will cause you to be neither empty, nor without fruit, within the plan of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.

Matthew 13:22

And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.

Matthew 20:3

And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

Matthew 20:6

Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, 'Why have you stood here idle all day?'

Matthew 25:26

But his lord said to him in response: 'You evil and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered.

John 15:2

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John 5:42

But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

Romans 12:11

in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;

1 Corinthians 15:58

And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 13:5

Test yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not know whether Christ Jesus is in you? But perhaps you are reprobates.

2 Corinthians 8:2

For within a great experience of tribulation, they have had an abundance of joy, and their profound poverty has only increased the richness of their simplicity.

2 Corinthians 8:7

But, just as in all things you abound in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all solicitude, and even more so in your charity toward us, so also may you abound in this grace.

2 Corinthians 9:14

and they offer prayers for you, being solicitous about you, because of the excellent grace of God within you.

Philippians 1:9

And this I pray: that your charity may abound more and more, with knowledge and with all understanding,

Philippians 2:5

For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus:

Philippians 3:8

Yet truly, I consider everything to be a loss, because of the preeminent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of everything, considering it all to be like dung, so that I may gain Christ,

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk in a manner worthy of God, being pleasing in all things, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 2:7

Be rooted and continually built up in Christ. And be confirmed in the faith, just as you have also learned it, increasing in him with acts of thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ live in you in abundance, with all wisdom, teaching and correcting one another, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing to God with the grace in your hearts.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

And may the Lord multiply you, and make you abound in your charity toward one another and toward all, just as we also do toward you,

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Therefore, concerning other things, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the Lord Jesus, that, just as you have received from us the way in which you ought to walk and to please God, so also may you walk, in order that you may abound all the more.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to give thanks always to God for you, brothers, in a fitting manner, because your faith is increasing greatly, and because the charity of each of you toward one another is abundant,

1 Timothy 5:13

And being at the same time also idle, they learn to go from house to house, being not only idle, but also talkative and curious, speaking of things which do not concern them.

Titus 3:14

But let our men also learn to excel in good works pertaining to the necessities of life, so that they may not be unfruitful.

Philemon 1:6

so that the participation of your faith may become evident by the recognition of every good work which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not be slow to act, but instead may be imitators of those who, through faith and patience, shall inherit the promises.

2 Peter 1:2

Grace to you. And may peace be fulfilled according to the plan of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord,

2 Peter 1:3

in the same manner that all things which are for life and piety have been given to us by his Divine virtue, through the plan of him who has called us to our own glory and virtue.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after taking refuge from the defilements of the world in the understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled and overcome by these things, then the latter state becomes worse than the former.

2 Peter 3:18

Yet truly, increase in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory, both now and in the day of eternity. Amen.