◄ 2 Peter 1:10 ►
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Good News Translation
So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore, brothers and sisters, be all the more eager to confirm your call and election, for if you do this, you will never stumble.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, you must do all you can to show God has really chosen and selected you. If you keep on doing this, you won't stumble and fall.

New American Bible
Therefore, brothers, be all the more eager to make your call and election firm, for, in doing so, you will never stumble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

give.

2 Peter 1:5 And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:

2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.

to make.

2 Timothy 2:19 But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.

Hebrews 6:11,19 And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end: . . .

1 John 3:19-21 In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall persuade our hearts. . . .

election.

Romans 8:28-31 And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. . . .

1 Thessalonians 1:3,4 Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father. . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:13,14 0 . . .

1 Peter 1:2 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

if.

Psalm 15:5 He that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes against the innocent: He that doth these things, shall not be moved for ever.

Isaiah 56:2 Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that shall lay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, that keepeth his hands from doing any evil.

Matthew 7:24,25 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, . . .

Luke 6:47-49 Every one that cometh to me and heareth my words and doth them, I will shew you to whom he is like. . . .

1 John 3:19 In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall persuade our hearts.

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

never.

2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Psalm 37:24 When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth his hand under him.

Psalm 62:2,6 For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more. . . .

Psalm 112:6 Because he shall not be moved for ever.

Psalm 121:3 May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

Micah 7:8 Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.

Acts 20:24,25 But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. . . .

1 Peter 1:5 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

Revelation 3:10,11 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth. . . .

Context
Partakers of the Divine Nature
…9For he that hath not these things with him is blind and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time. 11For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.…
Cross References
Psalm 15:5
He that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes against the innocent: He that doth these things, shall not be moved for ever.

Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen.

Romans 11:29
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

1 Thessalonians 1:4
Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election:

James 2:10
And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all.

2 Peter 1:3
As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue.

2 Peter 3:14
Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.

2 Peter 3:17
You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Peter 1:9
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