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In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.

The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.

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· kai For this very autos reason houtos, · de make pareispherō every pas effort spoudē by en · ho your hymeis faith pistis to produce epichorēgeō · ho virtue aretē, by en · de · ho virtue aretē · ho knowledge gnōsis, by en · de · ho knowledge gnōsis · ho self-control enkrateia, by en · de · ho self-control enkrateia · ho steadfastness hypomonē, by en · de · ho steadfastness hypomonē · ho godliness eusebeia, by en · de · ho godliness eusebeia · ho brotherly philadelphia affection , and de by en · ho brotherly affection philadelphia · ho love agapē. For gar if hyparchō you hymeis possess hyparchō these qualities houtos · kai in increasing measure pleonazō, they will make kathistēmi you effective ou argos and productive oude in eis your ho knowledge epignōsis of ho our hēmeis Lord kyrios Jesus Iēsous Christ Christos. For gar the one who hos does not have pareimi these qualities houtos is eimi blind typhlos; he is nearsighted myōpazō, having lambanō forgotten lēthē that ho he was cleansed katharismos from ho his autos past palai sins hamartia.

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