For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control,(A) self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection,(B) and brotherly affection with love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless(C) or unfruitful(D) in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

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