⁵ Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge; ⁶ and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control ^[a]patience; and in your ^[b]patience godliness; ⁷ and in your godliness ^[c]brotherly kindness; and in your ^[d]brotherly kindness love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he that lacketh these things is blind, ^[e]seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.