Goodness is True Manliness
2 Peter 1:5-7
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;…


There is nothing really brave, really manly, really womanly, on earth, unless it is also good. To be good and to do good — that alone is manly. There are two Latin words for man. The one — homo — means merely a man as an animal distinguished from a dog or a horse. But the other word — vir — means a man in the best and truest sense; and that gives us our word "virtue," Never forget, virtue and manliness are one.

(Canon Teignmouth Shore.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

WEB: Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;




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