For if these things are yours and abound (ταυτα γαρ υμιν υπαρχοντα κα πλεοναζοντα). Present active circumstantial (conditional) pa…

For if these things are in you, and abound. If they are in you in rich abundance; if you are eminent for these things.

They mak…

For if these things be in you.—This is the first reason for the preceding exhortation: the benefit of having these graces…

And to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

The “knowledge” of God is the beginning, the continuance, and the goal of the Christian life (cf. Php 3:10). If Christians possess in ever-increasi…

For if these things be in you. Then, he says, you will at last prove that Christ is really known by you, if you are endowed with virtue, t…

For if these things are in you
Are wrought in you by the Spirit of God, and exercised and performed by his assistanc…

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 since…