‘For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.'

The importance of these ‘virtues' is now brought out. Those who abound in them will neither be idle nor unfruitful with regard to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. They will be stirred to activity in testifying to Christ (1 Peter 3:15) and in good works which reveal Christ (1 Peter 2:9; Matthew 5:16), and they will study to show themselves approved to God (1 Peter 2:2; 2 Timothy 2:15). Thus will they grow daily in their knowledge of Him.

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