For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
5 And besides this. As it is a work arduous and of immense labor, to put off the corruption which is in us, he bids us to strive and make every effort for this purpose. He intimates that no place is to be given in this case to sloth, and that we ought to obey God calling us, not slowly or carelessly, but that there...
You have obtained precious faith already, yet you must not rest there as if perfection were reached. Without all diligence you gain no ground in holiness; the slothful make nothing of religion. Strive, or you will not enter in at the strait gate.
AI summary
Commenting on 2 Peter 1:5-11
And besides this, giving all diligence,.... "Or upon this", as the Syriac and Arabic versions read, bestow all your labour, diligence, and care; namely, on what follows, and that from the consideration of what goes before; for nothing can more strongly animate, and engage to the diligent exercise of grace and discharge of duty, than a consideration of the high favours, and free grace gifts...