²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^(A)

⁸ For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive^(A) in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.^{(B) 9} But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind,^(C) forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.^(D)