Growth in Christian Virtue (Part 5) Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Growth in Christian Virtue (Part 4) ----------------------- Date: 06/02/1999 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. When Peter talks about growing in knowledge, he is describing a very specific type. What is it?   2. Why do you think this type of knowledge is preceded by diligence and moral excellence?   Practical help It is not a guarantee that if we live long enough, we will figure out how to live. The choices you diligently make to be a person of moral excellence will enable you to learn more and more about God, His divine power, and how to live a fruitful life. Internet pornography is moving in the opposite direction. Take that path and you will discover only meaninglessness and emptiness. Tomorrow we will look at self-control. 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."