2 Peter Add-Ons
2 Peter (Add-Ons) Growth Plan
Together with the growth we experience in loving relationships, and the truth of Jesus in Scripture, these are steps to greatness.
In this plan from 2 Peter 1, there is a great path to love. Some call these the “Add-ons of Faith”. LoveSteps refers to these add-ons as the “2 Peter Faith Maturity Map.”
- 1. Faith
- 2. Moral Excellence or Virtue or things which are best practices
- 3. Knowledge (of God and basics of God)
- 4. Self-control or Temperance
- 5. Patient Endurance (Perseverance)
- 6. Godliness/Piety
- 7. Brotherly Affection (Kindness)
- 8. Love (for everyone)
Explanations and Details of the 8:
= Verses
2 Peter 1:3-9
3His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance,godliness; 7and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.