2 Peter 1:10 (DRB)

Passage

Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

Nearby Context

2 Peter 1:8 For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:9 For he that hath not these things with him is blind and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

2 Peter 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:12 For which cause, I will begin to put you always in remembrance of these things: though indeed you know them and are confirmed in the present truth.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "good works", "wherefore", "brethren", "labour", "make", "sure", and "calling". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "good works" and "wherefore", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "For he that hath not these things..." into verse 11's "For so an entrance shall be ministered...", so "good works" and "wherefore" belong inside that flow. In 2 Peter context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "good works" and "wherefore" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.