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2 Peter 1:10 Wilbur Pickering’s New Testament WPNT 2015 | 100 Bible versions Compare

2 Peter 1

10 Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, As in his first letter, Peter emphasizes both divine sovereignty and human responsibility, only this verse is especially bothersome to certain theological systems. If we can make our election sure, then we can also make it unsure, or words have no meaning. Since both truths are clearly presented from cover to cover of the Bible, theological systems that emphasize only one of the two do not do justice to the Sacred Text. To emphasize only one is to hop on one foot—to walk, run and work efficiently you really need both feet. To our limited human logic the two truths appear to be incompatible, but to God’s infinite logic they obviously are not. Those who are wise will bow to God’s logic. for if you do these things you will never stumble. The verb used is ‘to stumble’, not ‘to fall’, but the tense used suggests a permanent consequence.

2 Peter 1

10 So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.

2 Peter 1

10 [6] Therefore, brothers, be all the more eager to make your call and election firm, for, in doing so, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1

10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

2 Peter 1

10 Therefore, brethren, give all the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, ye shall never fall.

2 Peter 1

10 Therefore, brothers, diligently make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1

10 Therefore, brothers, [1] be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1

10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1

10 Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1

10 My brothers, God called you and chose you to be his. Try hard to show that you really are God’s chosen people. If you do all these things, you will never fall.