2 Peter 1:8

WEB

⁸For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

KJV

⁸For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

BSB

⁸For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

FBV

⁸The more you have these qualities, the more they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Extra References

Titus 3:14

¹⁴Let our people also learn to maintain good works to meet necessary needs, that they may not be unfruitful.

John 15:2

²Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Hebrews 6:12

¹²that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Colossians 3:16

¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Philippians 1:9

⁹This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

1 Thessalonians 3:12

¹²May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

2 Peter 1:2

²Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Philemon 1:6

⁶that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

¹Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

1 Corinthians 15:58

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.