2 Peter 1:8

If these qualities are present and growing, they keep believers fruitful and effective in knowing Christ. It matters because spiritual growth guards against a barren, ineffective faith.

Cross-references · 27

• Titus 3:14And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
• John 15:2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• Heb 6:12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Phil 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• 1 Th 3:12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• Phlm 1:6That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Pet 1:2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• 2 Cor 8:2How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
• Phil 2:5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
• 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
• Col 2:7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• 2 Cor 9:14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
• John 15:6–8If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
• Rom 12:11Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• 1 Tim 5:13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
• Prov 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
• 2 Cor 5:13–17For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
• John 5:42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
• Matt 13:22He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
• Matt 20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
• Matt 25:26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
• 2 Cor 8:7Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
• Matt 20:3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

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