2 Peter 1:8
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1:8For if28 these things are really yours29 and are continually increasing,30 they will keep you from becoming31 ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of32 knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.33
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- 28 The participles are evidently conditional, as most translations render them.
- 29 The participle ὑπάρχοντα (huparchonta) is stronger than the verb εἰμί (eimi), usually implying a permanent state. Hence, the addition of “really” is implied.
- 30 Continually increasing. There are evidently degrees of ownership of these qualities, implying degrees of productivity in one’s intimacy with Christ. An idiomatic rendering of the first part of v. 8 would be “For if you can claim ownership of these virtues in progressively increasing amounts …”
- 31 Grk “cause [you] not to become.”
- 32 Grk “unto,” “toward”; although it is possible to translate the preposition εἰς (eis) as simply “in.”
- 33 Grk “the [rich] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Verse 8 in Greek does not make a full stop (period), for v. 9 begins with a subordinate relative pronoun. Contemporary English convention requires a full stop in translation, however.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
For 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.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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NLTNew Living Translation
The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
For if these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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KJV 1900King James Version
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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