and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
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.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 1:5-11
Knowledge means nothing if life is a scene of intemperance and debauchery. Add temperance to knowledge, or that knowledge will not be rightly used. And temperance itself needs patience joined to it, since a man may be as drunk on wrath and anger as on wine.
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Temperance is mastery over all our evil inclinations. We are to allow none of them control. Every propensity of our nature must be confined within limits the law of God allows, and none indulged beyond them.
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