8for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;


In Context

5 But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,

6 in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,

7 in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:

8 for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;

2 Peter 1:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:8For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.