and for this same reason, and by[a] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge, and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness, and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:5 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“applying”) which is understood as means