The necessity of fruitful knowledge
Steven Key examines 2 Peter 1:5-9 to develop a theology of "fruitful knowledge," arguing that believers' knowledge of Christ must necessarily express itself in spiritual growth and visible fruit-bearing. The article emphasizes that Christian sanctification begins with God's gracious work in Christ and must overflow into active, diligent cultivation of virtue, temperance, patience, and godliness in the believer's earthly walk.
And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 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. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged...
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