2 Peter 1:5-9
Modern English Version
5 For this reason make every effort to add virtue to your faith; and to your virtue, knowledge; 6 and to your knowledge, self-control; and to your self-control, patient endurance; and to your patient endurance, godliness; 7 and to your godliness, brotherly kindness; and to your brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if these things reside in you and abound, they ensure that you will neither be useless nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But the one who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted because he has forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.
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2 Peter 1:5-9
Lexham English Bible
5 and for this same reason, and by[a] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge, 6 and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness, 7 and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
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8 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. 9 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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- 2 Peter 1:5 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“applying”) which is understood as means
- 2 Peter 1:8 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as conditional
- 2 Peter 1:9 Literally “receiving forgetfulness of the cleansing”
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