2 Peter 1:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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  • John 15:2 : 2 every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
  • Titus 3:14 : 14 and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
  • Heb 6:12 : 12 that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.
  • 2 Pet 1:2 : 2 Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!
  • Phlm 1:6 : 6 that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that `is' in you toward Christ Jesus;
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 and at the same time also, they learn `to be' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.
  • Matt 13:22 : 22 `And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
  • Matt 20:3 : 3 `And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle,
  • Matt 20:6 : 6 And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?
  • Matt 25:26 : 26 `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!
  • John 5:42 : 42 but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.
  • John 15:6-8 : 6 if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned; 7 if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you. 8 `In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:13-17 : 13 for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you, 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again. 16 So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more; 17 so that if any one `is' in Christ -- `he is' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
  • 2 Cor 8:2 : 2 because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;
  • 2 Cor 8:7 : 7 but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;
  • 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,
  • Phil 2:5 : 5 For, let this mind be in you that `is' also in Christ Jesus,
  • Col 2:7 : 7 being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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    2Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!

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    4through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

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