NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers,^† be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

2 Peter 1:10 in context

2 Peter 1:7–13

and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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Therefore, brothers,^† be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

Notes from World English Bible Updated

The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.