2 Peter 1:10 Parallel Translations

Therefore, brothers and sisters, use more effort to make God's calling and choosing of you secure. If you keep doing this, you will never fall away.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

ASV:

Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

BBE:

For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

DBY:

Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;

ERV:

Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

WEY:

For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.

WBS:

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

WEB:

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

YLT:

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

2 Peter 1:10 Cross References

XREF:

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

Romans 11:29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

1 Thessalonians 1:4 knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you;

James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

2 Peter 1:3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness,

Jude 1:24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:10 {8} Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
(8) The conclusion: Therefore seeing our calling and election is approved by those fruits, and is confirmed in us, and moreover seeing this is the only way to the everlasting kingdom of Christ, it remains that we set our minds wholly on that way.

PNT:

1:10 Wherefore... give diligence. The more diligence (Revised Version). Diligence to the end is needful in order to salvation.
Your calling and election. The calling is first in order; the election comes when we accept the call.
Sure. Our own efforts are needed to make them sure.
For if ye do these things. Those named above. Thus we will make the calling and election sure. For then we shall never fail.

WES:

1:10 Wherefore - Considering the miserable state of these apostates. Brethren - St. Peter nowhere uses this appellation in either of his epistles, but in this important exhortation. Be the more diligent - By courage, knowledge, temperance, and c. To make your calling and election firm - God hath called you by his word and his Spirit; he hath elected you, separated you from the world, through sanctification of the Spirit. O cast not away these inestimable benefits! If ye are thus diligent to make your election firm, ye shall never finally fall.

MHC:

1:1-11 Faith unites the weak believer to Christ, as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every sincere believer is by his faith justified in the sight of God. Faith worketh godliness, and produces effects which no other grace in the soul can do. In Christ all fulness dwells, and pardon, peace, grace, and knowledge, and new principles, are thus given through the Holy Spirit. The promises to those who are partakers of a Divine nature, will cause us to inquire whether we are really renewed in the spirit of our minds; let us turn all these promises into prayers for the transforming and purifying grace of the Holy Spirit. The believer must add knowledge to his virtue, increasing acquaintance with the whole truth and will of God. We must add temperance to knowledge; moderation about worldly things; and add to temperance, patience, or cheerful submission to the will of God. Tribulation worketh patience, whereby we bear all calamities and crosses with silence and submission. To patience we must add godliness: this includes the holy affections and dispositions found in the true worshipper of God; with tender affection to all fellow Christians, who are children of the same Father, servants of the same Master, members of the same family, travellers to the same country, heirs of the same inheritance. Wherefore let Christians labour to attain assurance of their calling, and of their election, by believing and well-doing; and thus carefully to endeavour, is a firm argument of the grace and mercy of God, upholding them so that they shall not utterly fall. Those who are diligent in the work of religion, shall have a triumphant entrance into that everlasting kingdom where Christ reigns, and they shall reign with him for ever and ever; and it is in the practice of every good work that we are to expect entrance to heaven.

CONC:

Approval Brethren Brothers Calling Care Choice Choosing Chosen Confirm Diligence Diligent Eager Earnest Election Fall Practice Practise Rather Reason Selection Stedfast Stumble Sure Wherefore Zealous

Approval Care Choosing Chosen Confirm Diligence Diligent Earnest Election Fall Practice Practise Rather Reason Selection Stumble Sure Use Wherefore Zealous

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