But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Growth is the only safety: stand still and you fall back. Grace comes through knowledge of Christ, which is the means by which we obtain His gifts. That Christ receives eternal glory proves His divinity; what belongs to God alone cannot belong to a creature.
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Sin has corrupted all creation, and it cannot be freed without dissolution. If man's transgression has brought such ruin, how abominable sin is and how much we must hate it. You must labor to be eminent in holiness, not content with a lower measure, holy in God's house and your own, in worship and in all your dealings with men.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 3:11-18
Gifts unused shrink, but exercised and stirred up they increase. Grace works gradually, like seed in soil; saints move from babes to children to fathers. Every grace, faith, hope, love, patience, can grow, and you must seek its increase through prayer, Scripture, and remembering Christ's death and resurrection.
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