2nd Peter Chapter 1 verse 6 Holy Bible
and in `your' knowledge self-control; and in `your' self-control patience; and in `your' patience godliness;
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And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
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in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,
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And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
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and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
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and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - And to knowledge temperance; rather, self-control (ἐγκράτεια). The words ἐκράτεια ψυχῆς are the heading of a section in the Greek of Ecclus. 18:30, and are followed immediately by the maxim, "Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine appetites." This self-control extends over the whole of life, and consists in the government of all the appetites; it must be learned in the exercise of that practical knowledge which discerns between good and evil. True knowledge leads on to self-control, to that perfect freedom which consists in the service of God; not to that liberty promised by the false teachers, which is licentiousness. And to temperance patience; and to patience godliness. The practice of self-control will result in patient endurance; but that endurance will not be mere stoicism; it will be a conscious submission of our human will to the holy will of God, and so will tend to develop and strengthen εὐσέβεια, reverence and piety towards God (see note on verse 3).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness.--And in your knowledge [supply] self control, and in your self-control, patience, and in your patience, godliness. In other words, your discerning between good and evil must lead to avoiding the evil and choosing the good--i.e., to the control of your own lawless propensities; and in restraining these you must endure difficulties patiently; and your patience must not be the stolid defiance of the savage, or the self-reliant and self-satisfied endurance of the Stoic, but a humble and loving trust in God. Virtue and knowledge are energetic and progressive; they are exercised in developing the powers implanted in us. Self-control and patience are restrictive and disciplinary; they are exercised in checking and regulating the conflicting claims of many co-existing powers, so as to reduce all to harmony. There is special point in "self-control" being placed as the consequence of "knowledge." The false teachers would insist that knowledge led to liberty, which with them meant emancipation from all control whatever. Self-mastery is to the world at large the opposite of liberty; to the Christian it is another name for it--that service which is perfect freedom. Patience to the world is to accept loss and suffering; to the Christian it is to win the best of prizes--"in your patience ye shall win your souls."
