2 Peter 1:8 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

for these things being to you and abounding, do make [you] neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

English ASV

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English Amplified

For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

for these things existing and abounding in you make [you] to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

English EASY 2024

You should continue to grow as believers in all these ways. Then it will show that you really know our Lord Jesus Christ. People will see that your life has good results.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

If all these things are in you and growing, you will never fail to be useful to God. You will produce the kind of fruit that should come from your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English God's Word - GW 1995

If you have these qualities and they are increasing, it demonstrates that your knowledge about our Lord Jesus Christ is living and productive.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English KJV 1611

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.

English LSB

For if these things are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For if these things reside in you and abound, they ensure that you will neither be useless nor unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

If these are yours and increase in abundance, they will keep you from being idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

You should possess more and more of those good points. They will make you useful and fruitful as you get to know our Lord Jesus Christ better.

English NIV

For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English NKJ 1982

For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English NLT

The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Since these virtues are already planted deep within, and you possess them in abundant supply, they will keep you from being inactive or fruitless in your pursuit of knowing Jesus Christ more intimately.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For if these things are yours and abound, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

The more you go on in this way, the more you will grow strong spiritually and become fruitful and useful to our Lord Jesus Christ.

English Tyndale 1537

For if these things be among you, and are plenteous, they will make you that ye neither shall be idle nor unfruitful unto(in) the knowledge of the our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:8 — Compare Translations