2 Peter 1:6

And to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godlinesse;
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

and in {your} knowledge, self-control, and in {your} self-control, perseverance, and in {your} perseverance, godliness,
- New American Standard Version (1995)

and in `your' knowledge self-control; and in `your' self-control patience; and in `your' patience godliness;
- American Standard Version (1901)

And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
- Basic English Bible

in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,
- Darby Bible

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
- Webster's Bible

along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control, power of endurance;
- Weymouth Bible

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
- World English Bible

in kunnyng abstinence, in abstynence pacience, in pacience pitee;
- Wycliffe Bible

and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
- Youngs Literal Bible

Wesley's Notes for 2 Peter 1:6

1:6 And to your knowledge temperance; and to your temperance patience - Bear and forbear; sustain and abstain; deny yourself and take up your cross daily. The more knowledge you have, the more renounce your own will; indulge yourself the less. Knowledge puffeth up, and the great boasters of knowledge (the Gnostics) were those that turned the grace of God into wantonness. But see that your knowledge be attended with temperance. Christian temperance implies the voluntary abstaining from all pleasure which does not lead to God. It extends to all things inward and outward: the due government of every thought, as well as affection. It is using the world, so to use all outward, and so to restrain all inward things, that they may become a means of what is spiritual; a scaling ladder to ascend to what is above. Intemperance is to abuse the world. He that uses anything below, looking no higher, and getting no farther, is intemperate. He that uses the creature only so as to attain to more of the Creator, is alone temperate, and walks as Christ himself walked. And to patience godliness - Its proper support: a continual sense of God's presence and providence, and a filial fear of, and confidence in, him; otherwise your patience may be pride, surliness, stoicism; but not Christianity.