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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, [b](G)brotherly kindness, and in your [c]brotherly kindness, [d]love. For if these things are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor (H)unfruitful in the (I)full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For in whom these things are not present, that one is (J)blind, being nearsighted, having [e]forgotten the (K)purification from his former sins.

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  1. 2 Peter 1:5 Or virtue
  2. 2 Peter 1:7 Gr philadelphia
  3. 2 Peter 1:7 Gr philadelphia
  4. 2 Peter 1:7 Gr agape
  5. 2 Peter 1:9 Or escaped their notice, cf. 3:5, 8

Fruitful Growth in the Faith

But also for this very reason, (A)giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue (B)knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control [a]perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and (C)to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither [b]barren (D)nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is (E)shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:6 patience
  2. 2 Peter 1:8 useless