- 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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- And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
- And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
- 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.
- But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
- Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
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