2 Peter 1:6

The growth chain continues: knowledge leads to self-control, self-control to perseverance, and perseverance to godliness. It matters because Christian maturity is a connected, deepening progression, not a single trait.

Cross-references · 40

• Heb 10:36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Rom 5:3–4Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
• Luke 21:19“By your endurance you will win your lives.
• 2 Pet 1:3seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
• Heb 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• 1 Cor 9:25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
• Gal 5:23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
• 2 Cor 6:4but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
• Titus 2:2that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
• Rev 14:12Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
• Jas 5:7–10Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
• Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
• Titus 1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
• Ps 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
• Rom 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
• Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• Luke 8:15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
• Rev 2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
• Acts 24:25As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
• Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
• 2 Tim 3:5holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
• 1 Tim 6:11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
• 1 Tim 2:10but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
• 2 Pet 3:11Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
• 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
• Heb 6:12that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
• Heb 6:15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• 1 Tim 2:2for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
• 1 Tim 6:6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Rev 13:10If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
• Rev 1:9I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• Jas 1:3–4knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
• 1 Tim 6:3If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
• 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
• 2 Th 1:4so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
• Isa 57:1The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
• 1 Tim 4:7–8But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
• Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

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