2 Peter 1:10

Believers are urged to be diligent to confirm their calling and election, for doing these things keeps them from stumbling. It matters because a growing, fruitful life gives assurance of genuine salvation.

Cross-references · 24

• 2 Pet 3:17Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
• Luke 6:47–49Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
• Heb 6:11And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
• 1 Jn 3:19–21And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
• Ps 121:3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
• 2 Pet 1:5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
• Mic 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
• Matt 7:24–25Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
• Ps 112:6Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
• 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
• Ps 62:2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
• 1 Pet 1:2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• Ps 62:6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
• Isa 56:2Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
• 1 Th 1:3–4Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• 1 Pet 1:5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Rev 3:10–11Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• Ps 37:24Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
• Rom 8:28–31And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
• Acts 20:24–25But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
• Heb 6:19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
• Ps 15:5He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

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