How much "effort" does the Christian life require (2 Peter 1:5)?
2 Peter 1:5 NIV Make Your Calling and Election Sure: 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge.
2 Peter 1:1 - 21
JUB - 1 Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you in the knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus.
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