“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,”
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue — the imperative responds to grace; divine provision does not eliminate human responsibility but enables it. With virtue, knowledge; and with knowledge, self-control — the Greek akrateia (lack of self-control) was the culturally defining vice; Peter lists an intentional progression where virtue provides the foundation, knowledge illuminates the path, and self-control enacts the vision. The ascending order suggests each virtue both follows from and strengthens the previous one.
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2 Peter 1:5
“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,”
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue — the imperative responds to grace; divine provision does not eliminate human responsibility but enables it. With virtue, knowledge; and with knowledge, self-control — the Greek akrateia (lack of self-control) was the culturally defining vice; Peter lists an intentional progression where virtue provides the foundation, knowledge illuminates the path, and self-control enacts the vision. The ascending order suggests each virtue both follows from and strengthens the previous one.
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For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue — the imperative responds to grace; divine provision does not eliminate human responsibility but enables it. With virtue, knowledge; and with knowledge, self-control — the Greek akrateia (lack of self-control) was the culturally defining vice; Peter lists an intentional progression where virtue provides the foundation, knowledge illuminates the path, and self-control enacts the vision. The ascending order suggests each virtue both follows from and strengthens the previous one.