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2 Peter 1:8
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2 Peter 1:8
8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that yee shall neither be barren, nor vnfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Peter 1:8
To have or possess in great quantity; to be copiously supplied; followed by with or in.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Unfruitful or producing no spiritual fruit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
unfruitful
Not producing fruit; barren.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Understanding or awareness gained by knowing; recognition; what is known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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Open the full verse study14And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
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Open the full verse study2Every 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.
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Open the full verse study16Let 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.
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Open the full verse study12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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Open the full verse study9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
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Open the full verse study12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
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Open the full verse study58Therefore, 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.
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Open the full verse study1FURTHERMORE 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.
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Open the full verse study2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
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Open the full verse study6That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
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Open the full verse study5Examine 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?
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Open the full verse study2How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
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Open the full verse study3We 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;
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Open the full verse study7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
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Open the full verse study5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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Open the full verse study14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
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Open the full verse study6If 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.
7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
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Open the full verse study11Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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Open the full verse study13And 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.
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Open the full verse study13For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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Open the full verse study7Therefore, 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.
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Open the full verse study42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
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Open the full verse study22He 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.
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Open the full verse study3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
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Open the full verse study6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
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Open the full verse study26His 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:
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Open the full verse study15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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