2 Peter 1:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Cross References

Titus 3:14

And let people learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet urgent needs, so that they may not be unproductive.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.

John 15:2

He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not become sluggish but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Philippians 1:9

And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.

1 Corinthians 15:58

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

2 Peter 1:2

May grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Philemon 1:6

I pray that the partnership of your faith may become effective as you comprehend all the good that we share in Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

Philippians 2:5

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!

Colossians 2:7

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

2 Corinthians 9:14

while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you.

2 Corinthians 8:2

for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idle, gadding about from house to house, and they are not merely idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in utmost eagerness, and in our love for you—so we want you to excel also in this generous undertaking.

Romans 12:11

Do not lag in zeal; be ardent in spirit; serve the Lord.

John 5:42

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

Matthew 25:26

But his master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter?

Matthew 20:6

And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why are you standing here idle all day?’

Matthew 20:3

When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

Matthew 13:22

As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

John 17:3

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

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.

2 Peter 1:3

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

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become 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. Amen.