2 Peter 1:8

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and the soul of sloth shall hunger.

Matthew 13:22

And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

Matthew 20:3

And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market-place,

Matthew 20:6

And about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing idle, and he says to them, Why stand ye here idle the whole day?

Matthew 25:26

And his lord having answered, said to him, O evil and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I scattered not:

John 15:2

Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

John 5:42

But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

Romans 12:11

In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord;

1 Corinthians 15:58

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 13:5

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?

2 Corinthians 8:2

That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.

2 Corinthians 8:7

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.

2 Corinthians 9:14

And by their prayer for you, longing for you through the exceeding grace of God upon you.

Philippians 1:9

And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence;

Philippians 2:5

For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus;

Philippians 3:8

But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,

Colossians 1:10

For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 2:7

Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;

1 Timothy 5:13

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

Titus 3:14

And let ours also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

Philemon 1:6

So that the mutual participation of thy faith might be effective in acknowledgment of every good in you to Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 6:12

That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.

2 Peter 1:2

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

2 Peter 1:3

As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness:

2 Peter 2:20

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

2 Peter 3:18

And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.