Commentaries:Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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2 Peter 1:6
Temperance (thn egkrateian). Self-control. Old word (from egkrathv, en and kratov, one holding himself in as in Titus 1:8), in N.T. only here, Acts 24:25; Galatians 5:23. The opposite of the pleonecia of the heretics.
Patience (thn upomonhn). For which see James 1:3.
Godliness (thn eusebeian). For which see verse II Peter 1:3.
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