Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall :
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence,.... To exercise the afore mentioned graces, and to perform the above duties, since this is the way
to make your calling and election sure; by calling…
Barnes' Notes
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence - 2Pe 1:5. “In view of these things, give the greater diligence to secure your salvation.” The considerations on which Peter based this appeal seem to…
Adam Clarke
Wherefore - Seeing the danger of apostasy, and the fearful end of them who obey not the Gospel, and thus receive the grace of God in vain; give all diligence, σπουδασατε, hasten, be deeply careful,…
In these words the apostle comes to the chief thing intended in this epistle - to excite and engage them to advance in grace and holiness, they having already obtained precious faith, and been made…
Cambridge Bible
give diligence to make your calling and election sure We hardly need to prove that the "calling and election" of which St Peter speaks were thought of by him as Divine acts according to the Divine…
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