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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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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For if[b] these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing[c] of his former sins.

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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
  2. 2 Peter 1:8 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as conditional
  3. 2 Peter 1:9 Literally “receiving forgetfulness of the cleansing”