2 Peter 1:8 Cross References - Thomson

⁸ for these being in you, and abounding, dispose you to be neither idle nor unfruitful for the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ:

¹⁵ Fear restraineth the effeminate; but the soul of the slothful shall suffer want.

²² And that sown among thorns denoteth him, who heareth the word, but worldly care and the delusion of riches choak the word and it becometh unfruitful.

³ And going out about the third hour he saw some standing in the market place, unemployed,

⁶ And having gone out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing unemployed, and saith to them, Why have you stood here all the day unemployed?

²⁶ Thereupon his master said to him in reply, Malignant and slothful servant! Thou knowest that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter!

⁴² But I know you that you have not the love of God in you.

² Every branch in me which beareth not fruit, he loppeth off; and every branch which beareth fruit he cleaneth to make it more fruitful.

⁶ if any one continueth not in me he is thrown away as the branch is when it is withered. Such indeed are gathered and thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you continue in me, and my words continue in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you: ⁸ by this my Father is glorified. That you may bear much fruit, you must be my disciples.

¹¹ in business be not slothful: Be fervent in spirit; constant in serving the Lord;

⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, immoveable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.

¹³ For if we have been transported beyond ourselves it is to God; and if we are sober, it is for you. ¹⁴ For the love of the Christ urgeth us on, judging this, that if one died for all then indeed were they all dying, ¹⁵ and that he died for all to the end that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and was raised up for them. ¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no one after the flesh. Nay though we indeed knew Christ after the flesh, yet we now know him so no more. ¹⁷ So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away, behold! all those things are made new.

² that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy, though their poverty was very great, abounded for the richness of their liberality

⁷ that, as you abound in every thing; in belief, and doctrine, and knowledge, and in all earnestness even in your love for us, you might abound also in this bounty.

¹⁴ and for the supplication which is made for you by them who love you on account of the supereminent favour of God for you,

⁵ Examine yourselves whether you be in the faith: prove yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are somehow incapable of standing the test.

⁹ and this I pray that your love may abound still more and more, in knowledge and all discernment,

⁵ For let this temper of mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

⁷ rooted and built up in him, and firmly established in this belief, as you have been taught; abounding in it with thankfulness.

¹⁶ Let the word of the Christ dwell richly in you with all wisdom, when you teach and admonish one another; when with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs you sing gratefully to the Lord with your heart.

¹² and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all men, [as we do for you]

¹ Wherefore, as to what remaineth, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you, by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

³ We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is fit; because your faith increaseth exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all towards one another aboundeth:

¹³ Add to this, that, being idle, they learn to ramble from house to house, and are not only idle, but are indeed tatlers, and intermedlers, speaking tilings which are unbecoming.

¹⁴ And let our brethren learn to be foremost in good works on all needful occasions, that they may not be unfruitful.

⁶ so that every good man among you must acknowledge that thy participation of the faith is operative for Christ Jesus. [Or literally, "that thy participation of the faith may, in the acknowledgment of every good man among you, be operative for Christ Jesus."]

¹² that you may not become languid, but imitators of them who through faith and long suffering inherit the promises.

² favour be to you, and may peace be multiplied by an acknowledgment of God, and of Jesus our Lord.