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Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
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Assurance Through Action
Commentators agree that 'making your calling and election sure' is not about earning salvation, but about confirming it to yourself and others. This assurance isn't based on a feeling, but on the tangible evidence of a changed life, specifically by diligently cultivating the virtues listed in verses 5-7.
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2 Peter
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Therefore, all the more, brothers, be diligent (2 Peter 1:5). "In view of these things, give the greater diligence to secure y…
Wherefore (διο). Because of the exhortation and argument in verses 5-9.Give the more diligence (μαλλον σπουδασατε…
19th Century
Anglican
Therefore, all the more.—The exhortation is resumed with even greater earnestness for the reasons just stated in [Referen…
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Baptist
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall:
In view of the dangers spoken of in v.9 and the possibility of a fruitful knowledge of God (v.8), Peter exhorts Christians “to make [their] calling…
16th Century
Protestant
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence. He draws this conclusion, that it is one proof that we have been truly elected, and not ca…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence To exercise the aforementioned graces, and to perform the above dutie…
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…
