📖WEB · 2 Peter 1:9
What does 2 Peter 1:9 mean?
"For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins."
— 2 Peter 1:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;
and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
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