2 Peter 1:8

Christian Standard Bible

For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless  or unfruitful  in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Cross References

Titus 3:14

Let our people learn to devote themselves to good works for pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,  singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

John 15:2

Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes,   and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

Philippians 1:9

And I pray this: that your love  will keep on growing  in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God #— #as you are doing   #— #do this even more.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work,  because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

2 Peter 1:2

May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God  and of Jesus our Lord.

Philemon 1:6

I pray that your participation in the faith may become effective  through knowing every good thing  that is in us  for the glory of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, since your faith is flourishing and the love  each one of you has for one another  is increasing.

Philippians 2:5

Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,

2 Corinthians 13:5

Test  yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you? #— #unless you fail the test.

Colossians 2:7

being rooted and built up in him  and established in the faith, just as you were taught,  and overflowing with gratitude.

2 Corinthians 9:14

And as they pray on your behalf, they will have deep affection for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

2 Corinthians 8:2

During a severe trial brought about by affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

1 Timothy 5:13

At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from house to house; they are not only idle, but are also gossips  and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t say.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love  for one another  and for everyone, just as we do for you.

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now as you excel in everything #— #in faith, speech, knowledge,  and in all diligence, and in your love for us   #— #excel also in this act of grace.

Romans 12:11

Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the Spirit;  , serve the Lord.

John 5:42

but I know you #— #that you have no love for God   within you.

Matthew 25:26

“His master replied to him, ‘You evil, lazy servant!   If you knew that I reap where I haven’t sown and gather where I haven’t scattered,

Matthew 20:6

Then about five   he went and found others standing around   and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing? ’

Matthew 20:3

When he went out about nine in the morning,   he saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

Matthew 13:22

Now the one sown among the thorns #— #this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age   and the deceitfulness   of wealth   choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness induces deep sleep, and a lazy person will go hungry.

John 17:3

This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only   true   God, and the one you have sent   #— #Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value  of knowing Christ  Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work  and growing in the knowledge of God,

2 Peter 1:3

His  divine power  has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge  of him who called  us by  his own glory and goodness.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord  and Savior Jesus Christ,  they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge  of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.  ,