2 เปโตร 1:5
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
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Study Note
The command to 'add to your faith virtue' begins one of the New Testament's clearest examples of an ethical sorites (chain argument): faith → virtue → knowledge → temperance → patience → godliness → brotherly kindness → love (vv. 5–7). The term 'diligence' (spoudēn) that introduces the chain indicates active moral effort — the very opposite of the false teachers' antinomianism — making the passage a practical counter-argument to those who separate faith from moral transformation. The ladder of virtues has some parallels in Stoic ethical catalogs (prokopē, moral progress) but is directed toward distinctively Christian eschatological ends (v. 11: entrance into the eternal kingdom). The passage contributed to Catholic moral theology's emphasis on virtuous formation and to Protestant discussions of sanctification as growth in grace.
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Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;
And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,
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