Brotherly kindness; a love to those that are of the household of faith. This is joined to godliness, to show that it is in vain to pretend to true religion and yet be destitute of brotherly love. Charity; this is more general than the former, and relates to all men, even our enemies themselves. read more
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES2 Peter 1:5. Beside this.—“Yea, and for this very cause,” “on this very account.” Diligence.—Or earnestness; putting heart into effort. Add.—Better as R.V., “in your faith supply.” Adding to is not the idea of the Greek. “Each element of the Christian life is to be as an instrument by which that which follows is wrought out.” Knowledge.—Here, “moral discernment.”2 Peter 1:6. Temperance.—General self-management. Patience.—As self-control in temper. Godliness.—The... read more
2 Peter 1:5 The Struggle for the Right. The journey of life has to be travelled by us all. It must be made, whether shorter or longer between the cradle and the grave, and the point of consequence is to make it well. I. And now a question arises of the gravest importance: What are the first efforts needed in the journey of life? The way of life, we know from the experience of the saints, if not from our own, from the teaching of Christ, if not from the whisper of our own souls, has many... read more
2 Peter 1:5-7 Christian Growth. The word in the text which has been translated in our version "add" is a very pictorial term, and refers to a choir of well-trained musicians, such as Heman or Asaph led in the days of David and Solomon; and the idea which it implies is that as the different instruments of the great orchestral concert of the Jewish service blended together and produced a noble and harmonious outburst of praise to Jehovah, as the singers and the musicians each performed his... read more
2 Peter 1:5-8 The Golden Series. I. It is no one grace which makes a Christian. A man may have great knowledge, but if he wants charity, it profits nothing, or if he be a man of courage, but without godliness, he is an hero, but he is not a saint. II. Nor does any number of excellences united make a Christian, unless they be excellences added to faith. It is faith which makes the dead soul a living one, and so susceptible of every excellence. It is faith which joins the worldling to the Lord... read more
2 Peter 1:6 I. The coarser or entirely corporeal gratifications are the more obvious sphere for the exercise of temperance, and in some respects the easiest. We do not canonise a man because he only drinks to quench his thirst, and because his use for food is the restoration of his exhausted powers. And without converting the Christian Church into a convent or making one long Lent of the Christian year, we think it is often by greater simplicity in our tables and in our attire that most of us... read more
DISCOURSE: 2419THE CHRISTIAN’S GRACES2 Peter 1:5-9. Beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For 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. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see... read more
Second Peter.Simon Peter ( 2 Peter 1:1 ),The name Simon, of course, was the given name. Peter is the name that Jesus gave to him. He is,a bondslave and an apostle ( 2 Peter 1:1 )It seems that bondslave was first, apostle second.of Jesus Christ, writing to those that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ( 2 Peter 1:1 ):So Peter identifies himself as the writer. He is writing to those who have received "like precious faith" and... read more
2 Peter 1:1-2 . Simon Peter, the Greek is Symeon, as in two other places of the Greek text. To them that have obtained like precious faith, the christians of every name. Through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Isaiah 45:8. Romans 3:20. Middleton, on the Greek article, says that this is spoken of one Person, the same as in Titus 2:13. The argument is fair, because God the Father is the fountain of deity. The like argument applies to verse the second. Grace and... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:6
Temperance; a grace which represseth, and curbs in, not only sensual lusts, but all inordinate appetites, Galatians 5:22; Titus 1:8. Patience; that Christian fortitude whereby we hear afflictions and injuries, so as to persevere in our duty without being moved by the evils that attend us in the doing of it. Godliness; which respects our immediate duty to God, and comprehends all the duties of the first table. This is joined to patience, as being that which teacheth us, in all we suffer, to... read more