Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
That you have truly been elected and called by the Lord proves itself in the integrity of your life. Labor that your calling and election be not shown empty, but confirmed in the virtues Peter named before: these things, repeatedly mentioned, are your evidence.
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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
By diligence in these graces you make your calling and election sure to yourselves, though God's election itself is eternal, absolute, and irreversible. These virtues are fruits of His grace, not causes of it; yet they are the only proof you possess of it.
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