2 Peter 1:6

American Standard Version (1901)

and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;

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  • Rom 5:3-4 : 3 And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness; 4 and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:
  • Heb 10:36 : 36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
  • 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;
  • Luke 21:19 : 19 In your patience ye shall win your souls.
  • Acts 24:25 : 25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, Go thy way for this time; and when I have a convenient season, I will call thee unto me.
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
  • Jas 1:3-4 : 3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
  • Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. 10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
  • Titus 1:8 : 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;
  • Heb 6:12 : 12 that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;
  • Rev 14:12 : 12 Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
  • Rom 8:25 : 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
  • 1 Cor 9:25 : 25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
  • Gal 5:23 : 23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
  • 1 Tim 4:7-8 : 7 but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness: 8 for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
  • 1 Tim 6:3 : 3 If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
  • 1 Tim 6:6 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain:
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.
  • Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
  • Col 1:11 : 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;
  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
  • 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;
  • 2 Thess 3:5 : 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
  • 1 Tim 2:2 : 2 for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
  • 1 Tim 2:10 : 10 but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:
  • Ps 37:7 : 7 Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come] .
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Rev 13:10 : 10 If any man [is] for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
  • 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness,
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

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    2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

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    4 whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.

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    7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.

    8 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.

    9 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

    10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

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    3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

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  • 10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

  • 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain:

  • 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,

  • 7 But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also. [

  • 6 that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.

  • 2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

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    13 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

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    22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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    6 If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now] :

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    11 And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:

    12 that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

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  • 36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

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  • 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

  • 7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

  • 4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

  • 22 But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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    4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

  • 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • 15 Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

  • 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;