By good works you may make sure, &c. without diving into the hidden mysteries of predestination, &c. --- You shall not sin at any time. These words evidently suppose, that the graces and assistances of God will not be wanting; for it would be in vain to command, unless a man had both free will and capacity to perform. But, as it follows, these helps shall be abundantly ministered to you. (Witham)
2 PETER 1:10 spouda,sate bebai,an … poiei/sqai {A} After spouda,sate several witnesses, including a A Y 81 630 and the Latin, Syriac, and Coptic versions, replace the complementary infinitive constru...
Verse 10. _WHEREFORE_] Seeing the danger of apostasy, and the fearful end of them who obey not the Gospel, and thus receive the grace of God in vain; _give all diligence_, σπουδασατε, hasten, be deepl...
WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE DILIGENCE - 2 Peter 1:5. “In view of these things, give the greater diligence to secure your salvation.” The considerations on which Peter based this appeal seem t...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE GRACIOUS PROVISIONS OF GOD CHAPTER 1 _ 1. God's gracious provisions in Christ (2 Peter 1:1)_ 2. The development of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:5) 3. The promises o...
The author writes to those who possess a faith not less honourable (precious) than that of the apostles themselves, since they, too, possess all things pertaining to life and godliness. But effort on...
THE MAN WHO OPENED DOORS (2 Peter 1:1) _ 1:1 Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, writes this letter to those to whom there has been allotted a faith equal in honour and privilege wit...
For, if these things exist and increase within you, they will make you not ineffective and not unfruitful in your progress towards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever does not possess...
GIVE DILIGENCE. be diligent. Greek. _spoudazo._ See noun in 2 Peter 1:5. CALLING. See Romans 11:29. ELECTION. See Acts 9:15. SURE. Greek. _bebaios_. See...
_give diligence to make your calling and election sure_ We hardly need to prove that the "calling and election" of which St Peter speaks were thought of by him as Divine acts according to the Divine f...
ΔΙῸ ΜΑ͂ΛΛΟΝ. With this blessing and this curse in view, you should be the more eager to do _your_ part—the part which God allows, and indeed requires from you—in making effective the call which has co...
ΔΙΌ ΜΆΛΛΟΝ (G1352; G3123) посему более того (Bigg), ΣΠΟΥΔΆΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΣΠΟΥΔΆΖΩ (G4704) спешить, стремиться, прилагать усилия, усердствовать, активно участвовать (TLNT). Это слово подче...
DISCOURSE: 2420 MAKING OUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE 2 Peter 1:10. _Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: for so an entrance...
WHEREFORE THE RATHER, &C.— The connection seems to be this: "As he who is destitute of the graces and virtues of the Christian life, is voluntarily blind; therefore, my Christian brethren, do you give...
2 PETER 1:10-11 WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, GIVE THE MORE DILIGENCE TO MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE: FOR IF YE DO THESE THINGS, YE SHALL NEVER STUMBLE: FOR THUS SHALL BE RICHLY SUPPLIED UNTO YOU THE E...
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: WHEREFORE - seeing the blessed consequence of having, and the...
VERSE 10. WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN. For the reason that, by adding the qualities named, you are fruitful, and for the further reason that, if you are wanting in these qualities, you are rendere...
1 The introduction of the name Simeon, before Peter, and slave in addition to apostle, gives us a clue to the character of this second epistle. The emphasis is laid on practice rather than precept. It...
GREEETING. THANKSGIVING. EXHORTATION TO PROGEESS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM ONE WHO REMEMBERS JESUS CHRIST 2 Peter 1 may be subdivided into two parts: (_a_) 2 Peter 1:1, greeting followed by a declaration...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT THIS LETTER THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. His name used to be Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42...
‘Be very eager’ means the same as ‘work hard’ in verse 5 and ‘try hard’ in verse 15. Peter urged his Christian family to show true qualities of character. God had invited and chosen them. Their good c...
(3-11) Exhortation to progress in spiritual graces in order to win eternal life at Christ’s coming. God has given us all we need for salvation; let us profit by it, and show ourselves worthy of it....
WHEREFORE THE RATHER. — Exhortation resumed, with still more earnestness, for the reasons just stated in 2 Peter 1:8. The direct address, “brethren,” is a mark of this increased earnestness, and also...
CHAPTER 20 WHO SHALL ASCEND INTO THE HILL OF THE LORD? 2 Peter 1:5 THE Apostle has just set forth in all their fullness the riches of Divine grace: the precious faith, followed by the bestowal of al...
_Further emphasis on the connexion between faith and morality, and its reward_. “If you have these virtues, and are not sparing in your use of them, you will not be ineffective and unfruitful in the d...
σπουδάσατε. An Imperative. “A sharp and urgent form” (Moulton, _Proleg._ i. 173). βεβαίαν. _Cf._ Deissmann, _B. S._ pp. 105 ff. The word has a legal sense. βεβαίωσις is the legal guarantee, obtained b...
THE RULE OF CHRISTIAN GROWTH 2 Peter 1:1/p> The keynote of this paragraph is _these things_, 2 Peter 1:8. _Precious faith_, 2 Peter 1:1, answers to _precious promises_,...
This Epistle was addressed to the same persons as was the first. Its purpose was to strengthen them in view of dangers threatening them within the Church. The apostle addressed them as having 'like pr...
AVOIDING SPIRITUAL MYOPIA BY DEVELOPING ETERNAL VISION The graces of verses 5-7, must be in the Christian and multiply if he would not become idle (See K.J.V. margin) and without fruit in the knowledg...
(8) Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: (8) The conclusion: Therefore seeing our calling and electio...
"Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: (11) For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly...
In the second Epistle of Peter (and here I must be brief, because of the hour; and I may be brief because Jude will afford us a further consideration of it) we have the same substantial truth of God's...
10._Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence. _He draws this conclusion, that it is one proof that we have been really elected, and not in vain called by the Lord, if a good conscience and integ...
The Second Epistle of Peter is even more simple than the First. Like those of Jude and John, it is written essentially with a view to the seducers, who, with large promises of liberty, beguiled souls...
WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE DILIGENCE,.... To exercise the afore mentioned graces, and to perform the above duties, since this is the way TO MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE; by calling i...
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: Ver. 10. _Give diligence_] Say not here as Antipater king of Mac...
2 Pet. 1:10. "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for he that doeth these things shall never fall." The apostle had exhorted to give diligence to add...
_Wherefore_ Considering the miserable state of these apostates; _the rather_ That you may not be destitute of these things, but be fruitful in all graces and virtues; _brethren_ St. Peter nowhere uses...
WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE DILIGENCE TO MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE; FOR IF YE DO THESE THINGS, YE SHALL NEVER FALL;...
The fruitful diligence of the Christians:...
Peter writes not only as an apostle (as in his first epistle), but as a bondman and apostle. So authority is not only stressed, but lowliness of subjection, a precious reminder in days of deter-mined...
_ 2 Peter 1:10 ‘Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;'_ ‘BE ALL THE MORE D...
1-11 Faith unites the weak believer to Christ, as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every sincere believer is by his faith justified in the s...
GIVE DILIGENCE; viz. in the exercise of the forementioned graces. TO MAKE YOUR CALLING, your effectual calling to the faith of Christ, AND ELECTION, your eternal election to grace and glory, SURE, not...
2 Peter 1:10 Therefore G1352 brethren G80 be G4704 more G3123 diligent G4704 (G5657) make G4160 (G5733) your...
‘For which reason, brothers and sisters, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you will never stumble, for thus will be richly supplied to you the...
A PLEA THAT THEY MAKE THEIR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE (2 PETER 1:9). Peter now points out that those whose lives fail to be continually fruitbearing in the way that he has described reveal that they...
The writer starts at once, and in a somewhat abrupt and nervous fashion, with the great theme of advance in the spiritual life. He regards this as essential. He takes it for granted that it can be mad...
2 Peter 1:10. WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, BE THE MORE DILIGENT TO MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE. The ‘wherefore the _rather'_ of the A. V. suggests that the course now to be recommended is one to be pr...
WHEREFORE (διο). Because of the exhortation and argument in verses 2 Peter 1:5-9.GIVE THE MORE DILIGENCE (μαλλον σπουδασατε). "Become diligent (first aorist ingressive active imperative of σπουδαζ...
2 Peter 1:10 Making Salvation Sure. I. In order to make sure one's own salvation, our first counsel is, Be sure of the great foundation truths. You believe that there is a God, and that He is the Rew...
2 Peter 1:1. _Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:_ Peter here...
2 Peter 1:9. _But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off,_ He is short-sighted; he has some light, and some physical sight, but he cannot see to a distance; spiritually, he is...
CONTENTS: The great Christian virtues. God's Word exalted. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Christian should be diligent to add one Christian grace to another that he may bring glory...
2 Peter 1:1. _Simon Peter,_ the Greek is Symeon, as in two other places of the Greek text. _To them that have obtained like precious faith,_ the christians of every name. _Through the righteousness of...
SO THEN. "Because some may forget their promise to God, you must try even harder to make these good qualities an integral part of your life." TO MAKE. POIEISTHAI = to make or to do for one's self. GOD...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 1:10 Christians should be DILIGENT TO CONFIRM their CALLING AND ELECTION. God calls believers to faith through the gospel ...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 1:3 God’s Grace in Christ Is the Source of Godly Living. In this first main section, Peter emphasizes that God’s grace results in godliness....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 2 Peter 1:5. BESIDE THIS.—“Yea, and for this very cause,” “on this very account.” DILIGENCE.—Or earnestness; putting heart into effort. ADD.—Better as R.V., “in your fa...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 1:1 SIMON PETER. "Symeon" seems to be the best-supported spelling in this place. The same form of the name is found in Luke 2:25 and Acts 13:1; it also occurs in...
Second Peter. Simon Peter (2 Peter 1:1), The name Simon, of course, was the given name. Peter is the name that Jesus gave to him. He is, a bondslave and an apostle (2 Peter 1:1) It seems that bond...
1 John 3:19; 1 John 3:19; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 1:
The rather [μ α λ λ ο ν]. The adverb belongs rather with the verb give diligence. Render, as Rev., give the more diligence. Brethren [α δ ε λ φ ο ι]. The only instance of this form of address in Pete...
A CALL TO GREATER THINGS 2 Peter 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The author of the Epistle. It is most refreshing and certainly inspiring to open the Bible and find an Epistle which is indited by the Hol...
Wherefore — Considering the miserable state of these apostates. Brethren — St. Peter nowhere uses this appellation in either of his epistles, but in this important exhortation. Be the more diligent —...
As if our apostle had said, "See that in the diligent exercise of the afore-named graces, and in the daily practice of the afore-mentioned duties, you make your calling and election, which are sure in...