Growth in Christian Virtue (Part 4) Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Growth in Christian Virtue (Part 4) ----------------------- Date: 06/01/1999 Keywords: "moral excellence" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: 2 Peter 1:2-8, looking today primarily at verse 5* 2. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 3. seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 5. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge; 6. and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness; 7. and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, Christian love. 8. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Questions 1. If you were asked to describe someone who possessed moral excellence, what would you say?   Practical help Do you sometimes talk yourself into looking at web porn because it is not as bad as some other vice? The idea of "excellence" is never about just getting by. To be described as having moral excellence an individual would have to display honesty and trustworthiness whether alone or in public. Re-read the entire passage above and remind yourself that it is your choice, but God's power through promises He has already given you. Tomorrow we will look at knowledge once again. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1999 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."