2 Peter 1:5-11

Dear Brethren:

As a Christian, it should be your desire to grow and become stronger every day. By growing stronger in your faith, you will be able to continue serving the Lord, overcoming daily temptations. This growth will come through faithfulness and diligence.

In order to grow as a Christian, you must grow in individual areas, as illustrated in 2 Peter 1:5-11. In 2 Peter 1:5-11, Peter reveals seven graces or attributes that Christians must add to their faith. Consider the following list:

• Add virtue to your faith.
• Add knowledge to your virtue.
• Add self-control to your knowledge.
  
• Add perseverance to your self-control.
• Add godliness to your perseverance.
• Add brotherly kindness to your godliness.
• Add love to your brotherly kindness.
  

According to the inspired words of Peter, "if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." If you will work diligently to "make your call and election sure," if you will "do these things," then you "will never stumble." Let us all do our best to work daily to make these improvements within our lives as Christians.

Here is 2 Peter 1:5-11 presented for your consideration.

2 Peter 1:5-11

5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;

11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

In Love,

John Duvall