Make Your Calling and Election Secure

8 For if[a] these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing[b] of his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because if you[c] do these things, you will never ever stumble.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:8 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as conditional
  2. 2 Peter 1:9 Literally “receiving forgetfulness of the cleansing”
  3. 2 Peter 1:10 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“do”) which is understood as conditional