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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Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith (A)supply (B)moral [a]excellence, and in your moral excellence, (C)knowledge, and in your knowledge, (D)self-control, and in your self-control, (E)perseverance, and in your perseverance, (F)godliness, and in your godliness, (G)brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they do not make you useless nor (H)unproductive in the true (I)knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the one who lacks these qualities is (J)blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his (K)purification from his former sins.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:5 Or virtue