2Pe 1:8 | NET2full | STEP | 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.

‏ 2 Peter 1:8

8 For if ^{▼▼tn The participles are evidently conditional, as most translations render them.} these things are really yours ^{▼▼tn The participle ὑπάρχοντα (huparchonta) is stronger than the verb εἰμί (eimi), usually implying a permanent state. Hence, the addition of “really” is implied.} and are continually increasing, ^{▼▼sn Continually increasing. There are evidently degrees of ownership of these qualities, implying degrees of productivity in one’s intimacy with Christ. An idiomatic rendering of the first part of v. 8 would be “For if you can claim ownership of these virtues in progressively increasing amounts…”} they will keep you from becoming ^{▼▼tn Grk “cause [you] not to become.”} ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of ^{▼▼tn Grk “unto,” “toward”; although it is possible to translate the preposition εἰς (eis) as simply “in.”} knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately. ^{▼▼tn Grk “the [rich] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Verse 8 in Greek does not make a full stop (period), for v. 9 begins with a subordinate relative pronoun. Contemporary English convention requires a full stop in translation, however.}