- and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
- and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
- 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.
- But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
- Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall,
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- 有了知识,又要加上节制。有了节制,又要加上忍耐。有了忍耐,又要加上虔敬。
- 有了虔敬,又要加上爱弟兄的心。有了爱弟兄的心,又要加上爱众人的心
- 你们若充充足足的有这几样,就必使你们在认识我们的主耶稣基督上,不至于闲懒不结果子了。
- 人若没有这几样,就是眼瞎,只看见近处的,忘了他旧日的罪已经得了洁净。
- 所以弟兄们,应当更加殷勤,使你们所蒙的恩召和拣选坚定不移。你们若行这几样,就永不失脚。
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