NewLiving Translation. 5 In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, 7 and godliness with Soto conjecture Peter is using the term, without the article, as a personal appellation for angelic beings in 2 Peter 2:10b requires: seeing that use only paralleled in two Greek magical incantation texts. seeing that use not include the article to specify a definite "group" being referred to. ignoring Peter's other use of the term in 1 Peter Text 2 Peter 1:2-8. Thus far, we have been having messages on spiritual growth, based on the passage of scripture that we read from 2 Peter, that gives us a list of eight qualities that we should seek to build in our character: Faith, Virtue (moral excellence), knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity (or love). Footnotes 2 Peter 1:5 Or excellence; twice in this verse; 2 Peter 1:8 Greek these things; also verses 9, 10, 12; 2 Peter 1:10 Or brothers and sisters.In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters Theurgency of Peter's message in his second epistle is that the Christian's life, which begins with faith, must grow and develop into Christian maturity and produce spiritual fruit which is so honouring to the Father. As believers, we are not left on our own to forge through our Christian life blindly, depending on our own personal potential 1Peter 2:5-9. 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”. Weneed to be guided in our interpretation of 2 Peter 1:10 not only by the context provided us by Peter, but also by the context provided us by all the other inspired authors of the Bible. Thomas Constable, in his notes which accompany the NET Bible at bible.org, quotes Richard Bauckham (Jude, 2 Peter. Word Biblical Commentary 50. 2Peter 1:5-11. 5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor Theapostle Peter told us how we can avoid being "barren" and "unfruitful" ( 2Pe 1:8 ). He encouraged believers to be diligent and spiritually productive, developing the character qualities of faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love ( 2Pe 1:5, 6, 7 ). 1Peter 2:9New International Version. 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Read full chapter. 1 Peter 2:9 in all English translations. 1 Peter 1. 2d1B4.